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GOODWOOD 



HOUSE PARK AND GROUNDS 



A CATALOGUE RAISONNE 



T1HE PaGTiUR'ES 



IN THE GALLERY OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF RICHMOND, K. G. 



TO WHICH ARE ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF THE ANTIENT ENCAMPMENT, 

TUMULI, AND BRITISH VILLAGE, ON THE ADJACENT DOWNS : 

AND A DETAILED RECORD OF GOODWOOD RACES FROM 

THEIR FIRST ESTABLISHMENT. 



BY WILLIAM HAYLEY MASON, 



LIBRARIAN OF GOODWOOD. 



LONDON: 
SMITH, ELDER, AND Co. CORNHILL. 

1839. 



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TO THE MOST NOBLE 



CAROLINE GORDON 



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RICHMOND LENNOX AND AUBIGNY 



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IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, 



PREFACE. 

This little work originated in a wish expressed 
by the Duke of Richmond to possess a descrip- 
tive Catalogue of the Pictures in Goodwood 
House for the use of himself and his friends. 
At the suggestion, however, of many visitors and 
strangers, to whom the collection is at all times 
open, and by whom the want of such a publica- 
tion as is here attempted has been often felt and 
acknowledged, it has assumed its present form. 

That the opportunity of describing so ex- 
tensive and valuable a collection had not fallen 
to some one, whose greater experience and criti- 
cal knowlege would have better qualified him for 
the task, is to be regretted ; the apology which 
the Author offers for having undertaken it is 
simply, that but for him it would probably not 
have been done at all : — however imperfectly it 



PREFACE. Vlll 

may have been executed, he can only say that 
he has done his best. 

To the portraits, brief biographical notices 
of the individuals they represent have been at- 
tached, which can hardly fail to render them 
more interesting. Similar sketches of the dif- 
ferent masters have also been added, with a 
view of affording to those, who may not have 
had the opportunity of devoting much atten- 
tion to the study of pictures, a general idea of 
the characteristics of the Artist at the moment 
when one of the productions of his pencil is be- 
fore them. For these, Walpole, Bryan, and Pil- 
kington have been the principal authorities con- 
sulted. 

The Author is bound most gratefully to 
acknowledge his obligations to the Duke of Rich- 
mond, who, with uniform kindness, has rendered 
him most valuable assistance, and by whose 
liberality he has had access to many essential 
documents relating to the House and Family. 

Chichester, JuneZSth., 1839. 



The stately Homes of England, 
How beautiful they stand ! 

Amidst their tall ancestral trees, 
O'er all the pleasant land. 



The free, fair Homes of England ! 

Long, long, in hut and hall, 
May hearts of native proof be rear'd 

To guard each hallow'd wall ! 
And green for ever be the groves, 

And bright the flowery sod, 
Where first the child's glad spirit loves 

Its country and its God ! 

Hemans. 



GOODWOOD, 

&c. 

The Domain of the Duke of Richmond comprehends 
the three contiguous estates of Goodwood, Halnaker, and 
Westhampnett. It is situated on the south side of the 
Downs, a chain of hills covered with a fine verdant turf, 
and possessing in a striking degree that smoothness and 
regularity of outline for which the mountain masses of 
the chalk formation are so remarkable. Commencing 
with the bold promontory of Beachy Head they traverse 
the County in a direction nearly east and west, present- 
ing as far as Brighton, an immediate barrier to the sea, 
and forming a bold and precipitous line of coast; pro- 
ceeding westerly, they extend inland in an oblique 
direction, and occupy the centre of Western Sussex, the 
space between them and the sea being a maritime 
district formed of clay and gravel, the climate of which 
is warm and highly favorable to the powers of vegetation. 
Their length is between fifty and sixty miles, their 
greatest breadth seven miles, and their mean altitude 
about five hundred feet above the level of the sea.* 
* Mantell. 



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On the declivity of one of these Downs, at the West- 
ern end of Sussex, the noble mansion of Goodwood 
has been erected. Its situation is peculiarly beautiful 
and picturesque, surrounded by a Park, comprising up- 
wards of twelve hundred Acres, planted with the finest 
Timber, and commanding from various parts extensive 
and almost unequalled prospects of the highly cultivated 
and garden-like scenery, for which Sussex is so remark- 
able. It has been remarked by the Earl of Orford, that 
part of the distant prospect seen from elevated stations 
in the neighbourhood of Chichester, comprising the 
varied surface of the Isle of Wight, with the intervening 
and adjacent sea, and the inlets, bays, and projecting 
points of land, which diversify the flat shore of the 
Western part of Sussex, and the Eastern part of Hamp- 
shire, resembles in no slight degree that kind of horizon, 
with which Claude was accustomed to bound the finest 
of his pictures. 

From the heights near Goodwood House the eye takes 
in a vast extent of the cultivated plain beneath, studded 
with Villages and Hamlets, the City of Chichester with 
its Cathedral and lofty spire, distant about four miles, 
presenting a prominent feature in the enchanting scene, 
of which the waves of the English Channel and the Isle 
of Wight hills, are the harmonizing boundaries. 

Goodwood derives its name from its Saxon owner 
Goduinus, and was included in the survey made of the 



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kingdom, by the direction of the Norman Conqueror, 
and appears in Domesday Book as Godinwood. It was 
allowed to be retained by its Saxon possessor, who is 
himself described in the same record, as " Liber Homo.' 5 
It is in the Manor and Parish of Boxgrove. In the 
reign of Henry I., the Lordships of Boxgrove and Hal- 
naker were united and given to Robert de Haia, who 
had married a Lady of Royal Blood. The joint property 
passed through his descendants, by the female side, to 
Sir Thomas West, Lord la War, who was compelled by 
Henry VIII. to exchange it for the Abbey of Whew ell 
in Hampshire in 1540. It remained vested in the 
Crown till 1560, when Henry, Earl of Arundel, obtained 
a grant to hold in capite ; in 1584 John LordLumley and 
Jane Fitzalan his wife aliened it by sale to Henry Wal- 
rond, esquire. We find it thus described in the Burrell 
MSS.— "Rot. Par. 26th. of Elizabeth, Godinwood 
Manor, with its appendages, and 2 houses, 4 gardens, 2 
orchards, 200 acres of park land, 10 of arable, 500 of 
pasture, and 300 of wood, &c. in Hampton et, sold by 
Lord Lumley and Jane his wife, to Henry Walrond, 
knight." 

In 1597 the Lessee was Thomas Caesar; and soon af- 
terwards, Henry Bennett, jun. In the reign of Charles 
II. it appears to have been in the possession of the fa- 
mily of Caryll, of Harting, as an act of attainder against 
John Caryll, esquire, of Goodwood, was passed in the 



14 GOODWOOD. 

26th. year of his reign. The Estate was purchased by 
the first Duke of Richmond, about the year 1720, of the 
family of Compton, who then held the Manor of the 
adjacent Parish of East Lavant. 

Halnaker, called in Domesday Halnecke, descended 
as did Goodwood, till the year 15S7, (29th. of Elizabeth) 
when it was granted to Sir John Morley, of Suffolk. 
Sir William Morley, the last male heir, dying in 1701, 
was succeeded by his daughter Mary, who married in 
170S, James Earl of Derby, and died in 1752, by her 
will bequeathing the Estate to Sir Thomas Acland, 
Bart, of Devonshire, her nearest relative, by whom in 
1765, it was sold to Charles third Duke of Richmond, 
by whom it has been connected with the other entailed 
Estates. The House, which is seated on a commanding 
eminence, in an extensive Park, containing an avenue 
of Spanish chesnut trees of great size and beauty, and 
well stocked with Deer, was built in the reign of Henry 
VIII. It remained unoccupied after the death of the 
Countess of Derby, and was suffered to go to decay, and 
latterly it becoming unsafe to visit many portions of the 
delapidated ruins, the greater part have been taken down 
and removed. The remains of Halnaker House were 
almost a solitary specimen in this part of the Country 
of the castellated style, peculiar to the age of the 
Tudors. It had a gateway, flanked with small octangu- 
lar towers leading into a square court, a large hall, and 



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several lofty and wide bay windows in various apartments, 
suitable to the residence of the nobility of that age. 
These windows were ornamented with the armorial 
bearings of the family of West, and their alliances. The 
wainscot of the hall, wrought in carved oak, in knots, 
scrolls, and devices, with a frequent introduction of the 
cognizances of the founder, exhibited a most curious in- 
stance of the progress of the art when it had reached its 
highest degree of perfection in England. King Edward 
VI. visited Halnaker July 27th. 1551. 

Westhampnett comprising upwards of 1800 acres 
was purchased by the third Duke of Richmond. In 
Doomsday no separate mention is made of Westhamp- 
nett, it being attached to the manor of Halnaker. About 
the beginning of the seventeenth century the Estate 
was in the possession of Sir John Chapman, who was 
an active Commissioner for the Parliament in 1644, for 
compounding with the royalists of this district. His 
heir female conveyed it to Hugh Reason, Esq., by whom 
it was sold to Sir Hutchins Williams, Bart. He rebuilt 
the large manor house and made it his residence. Of 
his son Sir William Peere Williams it was purchased by 
the Duke of Richmond with great part of the property in 
the parish. The house having recently been much 
enlarged is now occupied as the Workhouse of the 
thirty-seven united parishes of the Westhampnett Union. 
The remaining portion of this estate was bought of the 



16 GOODWOOD. 

family of Steele, one of whom, Thomas Steele, repre- 
sented the City of Chichester for many years. 



GOODWOOD HOUSE 

Presents an elegant and imposing exterior. It was 
purchased by the first Duke of Richmond as a hunting 
seat and for occasional resort. The original mansion, 
an old gothic structure, was pulled down and that por- 
tion of the present one which forms the centre of the 
west wing, a plain edifice of Portland stone with a pedi- 
ment in the centre, was, under the direction of Sir 
William Chambers, erected in its stead. It remained in 
this state till the year 1800, when the third Duke of 
Richmond, who had devoted a long life and ample for- 
tune to the planting and improvement of the estate, 
commenced those extensive alterations and additions 
which have produced the present noble pile. 

It consists of a principal front with a colonnade of two 
orders, a portico of six doric pillars supporting another 
of an equal number of ionic, of Portland stone, extend- 
ing one hundred and sixty-six feet, and terminated by 
two circular towers with hemispherical roofs. The wings, 
each presenting a front of one hundred and six feet, are 
also terminated by similar towers. The whole of these 
additions are composed of squared flints, collected from 



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the Downs, and which possess this superiority over 
Portland stone, that the longer they are exposed to the 
atmosphere the harder and whiter they become. Mr. 
James Wyatt was the Architect under whose superin- 
tendance the buildings were completed. The windows 
of the two wings, which in fact form distinct fronts, 
open on extensive pleasure grounds, in which are several 
Cork trees remarkable for their size and beauty. 

The Vestibule, or Entrance Hall, 

The approach to which is under the centre colonnade, is 
a noble apartment, thirty-eight feet in length, thirty-five 
in width, and eighteen feet high. It is divided at its 
upper end by six pillars of Guernsey Granite of a light 
grey colour, each shaft being thirteen feet high, and 
eighteen inches in diameter, and bearing a most exqui- 
site polish. The plinth and tori are composed of white 
and black marble, and the capitals, of the Corinthian 
order, are executed in bronze. At each end are two 
half columns in scagliola, intended to correspond with 
the granite pillars, and so accurate has been the imita- 
tion as to render the deception imperceptible to the eye. 
They were the workmanship of a Mr. Allcott. 

The massive appearance of this superb colonnade 
gives an air of nobleness and grandeur, which agrees 
well with the extent and general character of the apart- 



18 GOODWOOD. 

ment. On a corresponding scale, on either side, are 
two massive marble chimney pieces, elaborately finished, 
with small Ionic pillars, and conceived in true classic 
taste. At the upper end, facing the windows, is a solid 
marble table, supported by two eagles richly carved and 
gilt, on which are placed specimens of antique and 
curious china, as well as views of the principal elevations 
of Gordon Castle.* 

On pedestals are antique marble busts of Claudius, 
Trajan, and Adrian, and the mutilated bust of an Apollo 
Belvidere, conveyed hither after the fire which destroyed 
Richmond House, at Whitehall. A small marble bust by 
Turner elli, of George III., a reclining female figure also 
in marble, a model of a Goodwood Gold Cup, and several 
smaller pieces, in marble, and bronze, consisting of Vic- 
tory, Jupiter, Vulcan, Venus, Dejanira, &c, are distri- 
buted on the chimney pieces, and in various other parts 
of the Hall. 

Two rare and curious relics of the feudal times are 
preserved in this Hall, a pair of Curfews; so called from 

* It may be well here to remark, that by the death of the late Duke 
of Gordon, without issue, in 1836, the princely Estates of that family 
devolved to the present Duke of Richmond. Alexander, fourth Duke 
of Gordon, by his will, entailed the Estates on the present Duke of 
Richmond, whose father the fourth Duke of Richmond married (1789,) 
Charlotte, eldest daughter of the above named Alexander Duke of 
Gordon, provided that his son George, fifth and last Duke of Gordon, 
died without issue- The Estates are situated in Aberdeenshire, 
Banffshire, Morayshire, and Invernessshire. 



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their use, couvre-feu, to cover or extinguish fire. They 
are made of copper, riveted together, with a handle at 
the top.* 

The colours of the Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia, 
of which the Duke of Richmond is Colonel, presented by 
his late Majesty, William IV., and a tri-coloured banner, 
one of those presented by Napoleon at the famous Spec- 
tacle of the Champ -de -Mai, after the return from Elba, 
bearing the inscription i( Champ- de- Mai/' and on the 
reverse " V Empereur Napoleon au Department des 
Bouches du Rhone" adorn the walls. The latter is the 
only similar tropy, which is not in the possession of the 
Duke of Wellington, all of these standards having fallen 
into the hands of the English after the capture of 
Paris in 1815. 



* The use of the Curfew has been traced as far back as the ninth 
century. An universal notion has long existed, that its introduction 
was to be dated from the Norman conquest, 1066, and popular preju- 
dice has numbered it among the oppressive acts of William the Con- 
queror. The custom of extinguishing fires at a certain hour, for 
which purpose this utensil was applied, had prevailed as far back as 
the time of Alfred, who, when he founded, or restored, the Uni- 
versity of Oxford, — " ordained, that all the inhabitants of that city 
should, at the ringing of the curfew bell every night at eight o'clock, 
cover up their fires and go to bed." It is therefore more reasonable 
to conclude, that the Conqueror only revived or continued the cus- 
tom — the intent being merely to prevent accidents by fire, all the 
common houses at that time being built of wood. The custom of 
ringing the curfew bell is still observed in many of our ancient towns, 
amongst which we may mention Chichester. 



20 GOODWOOD. 

Another banner of the Scottish Gordon Clan, with its 
motto "Animo, mm AstiitiA" will not fail to attract the 
notice of the Visitor. 

We will now direct the attention of the Connoisseur 
to the beautiful and valuable paintings with which this 
apartment is embellished. 

1. The Judgement of Paris, Guido. 

(3 ft. 9 in. by 2 ft. 11 in.) 
The subject, taken from the Mythology, represents Juno, Venus, and 
Minerva submitting to the decision of Paris, to which of them the Golden 
Apple of Discordia, inscribed "to the fairest," should belong. Venus in 
the centre, has possession of the prize. 

Guido, (Rem) a celebrated Italian historical painter, was born at 
Bologna 1574, and died 1642. His works have ever been deservedly 
admired through all Europe, and to this day increase in their value. 
His manner was easy, graceful, and elegant: he was especially re- 
markable for the delicacy of his ideas, the happy disposition of his 
objects, and the beautiful expression of his female forms. In subjects 
tender, pathetic, and devout he peculiarly excelled. His pencil was 
light, and his touch free, but very delicate ; and although he took 
great pains to finish his pictures highly, yet he generally gave some 
bold strokes to his work in order to conceal the time and toil he had 
bestowed on it. 

2. A Sleeping Venus, Titian. 

(5 ft. by 2 ft. 2 in.) 
An exquisite specimen of the skill of this unrivalled artist. The beau- 
tiful figure reposes on a red drapery, with a rich dark back ground. The 
head is slightly thrown back, presenting the profile of the countenance to 
the spectator, in which the artist has pourtrayed beauty and sweetness of 
the divinest sort. The limbs are elegantly disposed; the hues are glowing 
and transparent; the outline round and undulating ; and the lights and 



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shadows so arranged as to display to the best advantage the symmetry of 
the form. The colouring has all the look of real flesh, and the painting 
throughout displays that dignity, tenderness, and delicacy for which Titian 
was so remarkable. 

Titian, (Vecelli) a celebrated historical and portrait painter was 
born at Friuli about 1480, died 1576. He studied at Venice under 
Giovanni Bellini, and painted his first portrait, which excited univer- 
sal admiration at the age of eighteen. He was the friend and 
contemporary of Ariosto, whose portrait he painted, and was cele- 
brated by the Poet in his Orlando Furioso. After residing many years 
at Venice, where he was employed by the Senate to paint many 
historical works, he was invited to Rome by Pope Paul III. and 
arrived in that City 1548, where he was received in the most distin- 
guished manner. He declined a lucrative office which was pressed on 
his acceptance by the Pope, and at the earnest solicitation of Charles 
V. he shortly after quitted Rome for Madrid, where he painted most 
of his admirable pictures. In 1553 Titian returned to Venice, and 
continued the exercise of his art until 1576, when he died of the 
plague. As a colourist Titian holds an unrivalled dominion over 
every competitor. No painter has viewed nature with so chaste an 
eye, and to none were the tender blandishments of her tinting more 
confidentially communicated. His female figures and childien are 
preferable to his men. As a painter of portraits Titian is indisputably 
entitled to the highest rank, and his excellence in laudscape painting 
is deserving of no less commendation. 

3. Charity, De la Hire. 

(4: ft. 6 in. by 3/*. 6 in.) 
This painting represents a female with three children, to one of whom she 
is affording nourishment from her breast, whilst the other two are playing at 
her feet. Some ruins form the back ground, of the picture. The effect is 
pleasing, and the subject ivell conceived, but the colouring is somewhat tame 
and insipid. 

Hire (Laurence de la.) — A French painter born at Paris, 1606. 
There are few circumstances deserving of notice in the life of this ar- 
tist. His general style has been condemned as cold and spiritless. 
He died in 1666. 



22 GOODWOOD. 

4. Virgin and Child, G. Batista Salvi. 

( 2 ft. 3 in. by 2 ft.) 
A soft and pleasing Picture, in the style of Guido. 
G. B. Salvi, an Italian painter, born 1605 ; he confined himself 
principally to studies and copies from other masters, and seldom 
ventured on more complicated subjects than such as this picture re- 
presents. 



5. Portrait, full-length, of the second Duke of Richmond. 
(5 ft. by 4 ft.) 

This Portrait represents the young' Duke at the age of about 10 years. He 
is in a sitting attitude, attired in a close red jerkin and a blue cloak, with a 
spaniel dog by his side. 

A biographical notice of the subject of this painting is given 
in another part of the work. 



6. Portrait of Robert Bruce. 

{2 ft. 5 in. by 2ft.) 
The painter of this fine head is unknown. The countenance is most ex- 
pressive, and the stern determination which marked the character of the 
Scottish warrior is well pourtrayed. He is represented in mail, a dragon 
surmounting his helmet as a crest, and a red mantle thrown over the shoulder. 

Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, memorable as the res- 
torer of the independence of his Country, was born 1275 • 
defeated the English under Edward I. in the famous battle of 
Bannockburn, the most decisive victory over the English that 
the Scottish annals boast. After establishing the independence 
of his country, he retired to the Castle of Cardross, where he 
expired in the 54th year of his age and the 24th of his reign, 
1329, 



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7. Portrait, full length, of Charles I., in his robes 
of state, Vandyke. 

(8 ft. 10 in. by 3 ft.) 

The King is represented standing erect in a kind of vestibule, with his 
right hand placed on his hip, and the left resting on the hilt of his sword ; 
his countenance, denoting him to be about thirty-six years of age, is seen in 
a three quarter view, with small pointed beard, mustachoes, and long dark 
hair; he is attired in his royal robes, composed of dark blue silk, lined and 
bordered with ermine, and wears the collar and medal of the order of St. 
George round his neck ; the crown and ball lie on the base of a column in 
the back ground. 

Charles I. King of England, second son of James I. born in 
Scotland 1600, ascended the Throne 1625, and beheaded at 
Whitehall, January 30, 1649. A most munificent Patron of 
the Arts, and remarkable not less for his munificent patronage 
than for his judgment and discrimination. " The accession of 
this Prince," says Walpole, " was the first era of real taste in 
England. We never had a Prince in whom genius and taste 
were more elevated and exact. He saw the Arts in a very en- 
larged point of view j his cabinets were the receptacles only of 
what was exquisite in sculpture and painting. None but men 
of the first merit in their profession found encouragement from 
him : and these abundantly. Inigo Jones was his Architect, 
and Vandyke his Painter. Charles was a scholar, a man of 
taste, a gentleman, and a christian." 

Immediately after his accession, Charles began to form his 
collection. His first purchase was the entire cabinet of the 
Duke of Mantua, consisting of eighty-two pictures, and es- 
teemed the most valuable in Europe, for which he paid £20,000 } 
they were principally by Romano, Titian, and Correggio. Com- 
missioners were dispatched to the Continent for the purpose of 
securing the finest pictures. Through the instrumentality of 
Rubens, Charles purchased the Cartoons of Raphael, now at 



24 GOODWOOD. 

Hampton Court ; they had remained in Flanders from the time 
that Leo X. sent them to be copied in tapestry, the money for 
the tapestry never having been paid. 

But Charles was by no means satisfied with the mere pur- 
chase and possession of these noble efforts of genius : it was 
his wish to surround his person, and fill bis court, with men of 
eminence, and he spared no pains or expence to effect his ob- 
ject. Among those who shed a still unfaded lustre over the 
stormy period of his reign, Rubens and Vandyke occupy the 
highest place, and it can scarcely be doubted but that much of 
the deep interest which must ever attach to the melancholy 
story of the misfortunes and errors of this ill-fated Prince, may 
be attributed to the almost speaking canvas of Vandyke. It is 
impossible to contemplate this beautiful picture and not read 
the character of him whose figure and lineaments it represents. 
The high resolve which marked him in his hour of pride, and 
the resignation he displayed on the final scene of his earthly 
sufferings, are admirably blended in the calm and majestic 
countenance, which the pencil of this unrivalled artist has ren- 
dered so familiar to all. 

After the execution of Charles, his personal estate was or- 
dered to be sold, by a vote of the House of Commons, March 
23, 1649. But the accession of Cromwell, who occupied both 
the Whitehall and Hampton Court Palaces, prevented its entire 
dispersion. A great portion of the catalogue of the pictures, 
statues, &c. with the prices for which they were sold is still in 
existence. The produce of the sale including furniture, jewels, 
&c. amounted to £118,080 10s. 2d. The following is an ab- 
stract of the sale of the pictures, &c. in the several palaces : — 

Wimbledon and Greenwich 1709 19 

Whitehall 2291 10 

Oatlands (81 pictures) 733 18 

Nonsuch (33 ditto) 282 



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Somerset House, with those at Whitehall and St. 

James's (447 ditto) 10,052 11 

Hampton Court (332 ditto) 4675 16 

St. James's (Sculpture) 290 

Somerset House, Gallery, (120 pieces ditto) . . .2387 3 

In the Gardens (20 ditto) 1165 14 

At Greenwich (230 ditto) 13,780 13 6 

At St. James's (20 ditto) ,„••• 656 



£38,025 4 6 



Charles was the first English Monarch who opened galleries 
of painting and sculpture: nor was his inclination for architec- 
ture less than for the other arts. Had Whitehall Palace been 
completed as it was contemplated by the King, and conceived 
by Inigo Jones, it would have been the most truly magnificent 
and beautiful palace of any of the kind in Europe. The ban- 
queting room or hall of audience, the fifty-fifth part only of this 
noble design, was all that was executed. The ceiling was 
painted by Rubens, and it was the intention of Charles that 
Vandyke should have covered the walls with the history of the 
Order of the Garter, a sketch of which was finished in chiaro 
scuro, but the troubles of the time were threatening, and the 
palace and the pictures were alike abandoned. By a singular 
fatality, it was from a window in this hall, the creation of his 
own taste and munificence that Charles stepped to the block. 

Vandyke (Sir Anthony) born at Antwerp in the year 1599, was a 
pupil of Rubens, and early gave promise of remarkable talent. By 
the advice of his master, who candidly confessed that he could teach 
him nothing more, at the age of 21 he visited Italy, where he quitted 
much of his Flemish manner, and assumed a style more elevated 
and refined. At Venice, Geneva, Palermo, Milan and other Cities 
of less note he left examples of his pencil, and returned to Antwerp 
at the close of the year 1626. Charles I. having tried in vain to 
detain Rubens at his Court, turned his attention to Vandyke, with 
whose merits he was not unacquainted, and an invitation to reside 

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26 GOODWOOD. 

in England was gladly accepted by the Artist, who arrived in 1831. 
His performances during the first six or seven years after his arrival 
in London are accounted the most estimable. He painted an incredi- 
ble number of Pictures, principally Portraits. As a colourist, he de- 
servedly ranks with the first masters : he could imitate to deception 
the brilliancy of Rubens, as is instanced in many of his early works; 
or assume the rich and mellow tones of Titian, as is exemplified by 
the numerous pictures painted by him when in Italy. If some of his 
works are censured for the predominant brown tints, it should be 
recollected that they were not so originally, but have become dark 
from the protrusion of the ground colour, or from being slight and 
hasty productions. No painter was ever more skilful or dexterous in 
his art ; his rapid execution was governed by a mastery of touch, 
accompanied by a lightness and spirit peculiar to himself, and which 
are frequently the distinguishing characteristics between his works 
and those of Rubens. In comparison with that illustrious artist, as 
an historical painter, he was immeasurably inferior ; not so in por- 
traiture : in this he rises superior, and may also claim an equality 
with Titian. If he has less dignity in expression than the great Vene- 
tian, he has infinitely more elegance and grace, as well as natural 
animation, superadded to chaste and correct drawing, the agreeable 
art of giving action to his figures, and a more pleasing air to the 
heads. These excellences he had acquired by studying the peculiar 
beauties of the best Italian masters, on which he formed a style en- 
tirely his own, and admirably adapted to pourtray persons of every 
class and character, which is not the case with the severe and solemn 
style of Titian. 



8. Portrait of Charles II. Sir P. Lely. 

(2ft. 5 in. by 2ft.) 
The colouring of this Picture is sombre ; it is a small half length, in part 
armour, with the dark flowing hair which characterized the fashion of the 
period. 

Charles II. King of England and Scotland, born 1630, died 
1685, the son of Charles I. and Henrietta Maria, was a refugee 
at the Hague at the time of his father's execution. He made a 



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spirited attempt to recover the throne, and landing in Scotland, 
was crowned with great solemnity at Scone in 1651. Being, 
however, totally defeated by Cromwell at the battle of Worces- 
ter, after a variety of adventures and imminent hazards, he 
escaped to France. On the death of the Protector, and by the 
aid of General Monk, who was then at the head of the principal 
body of troops, Charles, without a struggle or effort on his part, 
succeeded at once to all those regal prerogatives which it had 
cost the nation so much to abridge and afterwards to abolish. 
He entered London on his birth-day, the 29th of May 1 6 60, amidst 
the most universal and extraordinary demonstrations of joy. 
Adversity, however, had done but little towards correcting the 
weak points of Charles's character. His indifference to the 
affairs of State, and his thoughtless and extravagant habits, early 
involved him in difficulties, to extricate himself from which he 
resorted to the most unworthy expedients. Of his pecuniary 
transactions with the King of France, no Englishman can 
think without feelings of shame, or speak but in language of 
reprobation. The sale of Dunkirk, and the receipt of a pen- 
sion from Louis XIV. were alike derogatory to the dignity of 
the nation and disgraceful to the King. It does not form part 
of the object of this summary to enter into a detail of political 
events -, but as the house of Richmond owes its origin and ho- 
nors to this monarch, a brief sketch of his court and personal 
character may not be misplaced: 

The Count de Grammont, an eye witness, describes the court 
as " an entire scene of gallantry and amusements, with all the 
politeness and magnificence which the inclinations of a prince 
naturally addicted to gallantry and pleasure could suggest." 
Long accustomed to the license and dissipation of the French 
Court, Charles had early imbibed habits of self-indulgence which 
unfitted him for sustaining with honor to himself and advantage 
to his people, the high and responsible station which he was af- 



28 GOODWOOD. 

terwards called on to fill. Surrounded by profligate associates, 
who were too happy to find an apology for their own follies in 
the example set them by the King, the Court of this Monarch 
became*a scene of demoralization which, extending itself to the 
other classes of society, tended to create a general laxity of 
morals, and to lower the character of the nation. Buckingham, 
Rochester, Sedley, and others of a like stamp, remarkable not 
less for talents which they misapplied than for vices the recol- 
lection of which has alone preserved to them a painful im- 
mortality, were the principal actors in this gay and frivolous 
scene. Charles, throughout the whole period of his reign, was 
governed by one or other of his favorites, and whom he allowed 
to exercise a most unfortunate influence over the political events 
of the times. Among the most conspicuous of these were 
Louisa de Querouaille, created Duchess of Portsmouth, and 
who became the mother of Charles Lennox, on whom the 
King conferred the title of Duke of Richmond j Lady Castle- 
maine, created Duchess of Cleveland, the mother of Charles 
Duke of Southampton, Henry Duke of Grafton, George Duke 
of Northumberland ; and Charlotte, Countess of Lichfield, and 
Eleanor Gwynn, commonly called Nell Gwynn, the mother of 
Charles Duke of St. Albans. 

In person, Charles was tall and well proportioned j his com- 
plexion swarthy, his features singularly austere and forbidding. 
He inherited from his father a sound and robust constitution, 
which in his youth he had impaired by indulgence, and after- 
wards laboured to restore by attention to diet and exercise. 
The disposition of his mind presented an extraordinary contrast 
to the harsh and repulsive lines traced on his countenance. As 
a companion he appears the most amiable and engaging of men ; 
he was kind, familiar, and communicative. Parade and cere- 
mony he held in aversion, and could gladly burst from the 
trammels of official greatness, that he might escape to the ease 



GOODWOOD. 29 

and comfort of colloquial familiarity. Whatever might have 
been his failings, (and they were too glaring to escape observa- 
tion,) few monarchs were more beloved by their people, and the 
intelligence of his last illness threw a deep gloom over the na- 
tion. During his reign, arts improved, trade met with encou- 
ragement, and the wealth and comforts of the people increased. 
" Men," says the historian Lingard, " are always ready to 
idolize the sovereign under whose sway they feel themselves 
happy." Charles married in 1662, Catherine of Braganza, 
infanta of Portugal, a virtuous and high minded Princess, though 
ill calculated to secure and retain his affections. She left no 
issue, and died at Lisbon, 1705, having survived the King 20 
years. 



9. Portrait of Louisa de Querouaille, Duchess of Ports- 
mouth. Sir Godfrey Kneller. 

(7 ft. 9 in. by 4 ft. 10 in.) 
A full length figure, in an elegant negligee, the countenance being seen in 
a front vieiv ; the back ground is principally formed by dark flowing dra- 
pery, which throws out the form with much effect; a black page is introduced 
in the right hand corner. 

In the preceding sketch of the character of Charles II., allu- 
sion has been made to his connection with Louis XIV"., and 
the ascendancy which the Duchess of Portsmouth preserved over 
the English Court, principally contributed to maintain it. The 
King of France, desirous of strengthening this connection, and 
of fixing Charles in the French interests, resolved to bind him 
by the tie of pleasure, the only one that with him was irre- 
sistible. Tha Duchess of Orleans (the sister of Charles) was, 
at the suggestion of Louis, induced to visit her brother at Dover, 
where she remained ten days. She was accompanied by a young 
French lady of high birth and great beauty and accomplishments, 



30 GOODWOOD. 

well suited and disposed to attract the notice and gain the affec- 
tions of the fickle King. In this she was perfectly successful, 
and continued throughout the remainder of his life to exercise 
an unbounded sway over the mind of Charles, and a direct con- 
troul over the counsels of the nation. Bishop Burnet, one of 
the most severe writers on these times, thus speaks of her : — 
" The King was presently taken with her. She studied to 
please and observe him in every thing ; so that he passed away 
the rest of his life in a great fondness for her. He kept her 
at a vast charge ; and she by many fits of sickness, (some be- 
lieved real and others thought only pretended) gained of him 
every thing she desired. She stuck firm to the French interest, 
and was its chief support. And so entirely was the King pos- 
sessed by her, and engaged in the French interest, that he was 
thrown into great difficulties and exposed to much contempt 
and distrust." 

Charles created " the Lady Louise Ren6e de Penencourt de 
Querouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Countess of Farnham, and 
Baroness of Petersfield, all in the County of Southampton, to 
enjoy during her life, by letters patent, dated at Westminster 
August 19, 1673} and in December in the same year, Louis 
XIV. granted unto her the territory of Aubine, in France, 
which by the death of Charles Stuart, 6th Duke of Richmond 
and Lennox, reverted to the crown, with remainder to such of 
the King of Great Britain's natural sons by her as he shall 



*The grant by the French king, dated at Versailles, in the month of 
January, 1684, in the forty-first year of his reign, recites, " that the 
territory of Aubigny upon Nere, in the province of Berry, having been 
given in the year 1422, by King Charles VII. to John Stuart, in con- 
sideration of the great and commendable services by him done in the 
wars ; and by default of heirs male, the same having reverted to the 
crown anno. 1672, on the death of the Duke of Richmond, he, in regard 



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Charles entertained towards this lady a feeling of the great- 
est affection, and which time served only to increase ; and even 
in his last moments his anxiety for her future welfare predomi- 
nated over every other earthly consideration. To use the words 
of Bishop Burnet, " he recommended her over and over again 
to the Duke (of York) j he said he had always loved her, and 
he loved her now to the last, and besought the Duke in as 

to the King of Great Britain, had, by his letters patent, dated in the 
month of December, 1673, granted to the Lady Louise Renee de Pe- 
nencourt de Querouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, the said territory of 
Aubigny, with all rights to the same belonging, for her life ; remainder 
to such of the natural male children as she shall have by the King of 
Great Britain, in tail male, by the said king to be named ; remainder 
to the crown of Fiance. And whereas the said King of Great Britain 
had appointed Prince Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond (his natural 
son), master of the horse and knight of the garter, to succeed the said 
Duchess of Portsmouth in the said inheritance ; he, the said King of 
France being willing to annex to the said inheritance a proper title, 
and such as should be agreeable to the illustrious birth of the said 
Duke of Richmond, and at the same time to confer honour on the said 
Duchess of Portsmouth, whose progenitors always held a considerable 
rank in the province of Britanny, as well in consideration of their 
birth, services in the army, as alliance to ancient families, and other- 
wise, and also considering the great extent of the said territories, 
consisting of the town of Aubigny, two considerable castles, two pa- 
rishes and fiefs, extending eight leagues,, with the privilege of resort- 
ing to the said court and parliament of Paris, &c. ; therefore he unites, 
creates, and erects the said town, territory, castellany and castle of 
Aubigny, fiefs, and lands, &c- into a duchy and peerdom of France, 
with all pre-eminences and prerogatives thereunto appertaining, to be 
enjoyed by the said Lady Louise Renee de Penencourt de Querouaille, 
Duchess of Portsmouth, during her life ; and after her decease, by the 
said Duke of Richmond, and the heirs male of his body, in name, title, 
and dignity of Dukes of Aubigny, and peers of France; with all juris- 
diction, rights, honours, authority, &c. belonging to the said dignity, 
of peers and dukes, and sovereignty of the said duchy ; doing homage 
to the crown of France/' 



32 GOODWOOD. 

melting words as he could fetch out, to be very kind to her and 
her son.'' 

The Duchess of Portsmouth, after the death of the King, re- 
tired to France ; she however visited England in 1699, and 
died November, 1734. 

Sir Godfrey Kneller, a most distinguished painter, was born at 
Lubeck in 1648. He studied at Amsterdam under Rembrant, and at 
17 years of age visited Italy, where he learned that free loose style of 
painting in which he delighted. In 1674 he came to England, and 
was introduced by the Duke of Monmouth to Charles II. whose por- 
traits he painted. He enjoyed the patronage successively of Charles 
II., James II. and his Queen, William and Mary, Anne, and George I. 
His portraits of the members of the famous Kit-Cat-Club, (39 in num- 
ber) were among the latest and best of his productions. Kneller was 
a most rapid painter ; so much so that where he offered one picture 
to fame he sacrificed twenty to lucre. He was a correct and graceful 
designer, and was accustomed to bestow extraordinary pains in deli- 
neating the features of his female portraits, his drapery and his back 
grounds being carelessly and indifferently finished—a portion of the 
picture in fact which he almost invariably entrusted to other hands. 
He died in London in 1702. 



10. A Portrait of Sir William Waller. Sir P. Lely. 

(2 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 4 in.) 
In half armour, with the head bare; the countenance, which is seen in a 
three quarter view, is stern and expressive. 

Sir William Waller was a famous Parliamentary General 
during the civil wars, and well known in Sussex as the com- 
mander to whom Arundel Castle and the City of Chichester 
surrendered j the latter after an eight days' siege, 1642-3. 
An interesting letter of Waller's to Essex is extant, descriptive 
of the siege of Chichester. It was printed in a small quarto 
pamphlet of 4 pages " For Henry Twyford, at the Three Dag- 
gers, in Fleet-street, in 1643 ; a true relation of the fortunate 



GOODWOOD. 33 

Sir William Waller, Colonel under his Excellency the Earl of 
Essex, concerning the manner of the besieging and taking of 
Chichester $ together with all such commanders and others 
taken prisoners there, and brought up to London." 



11. Portrait of Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I. 

Vandyke. 

(8 ft. 10 in. by 3/f.) 

The Queen is elegantly attired in a white satin dress, richly ornamented 
with lace. The face is presented in a front view, and the hair is tastefully 
arranged in ringlets. Her right hand rests on a table, on which are seen 
the crown, and a bouquet of roses, most exquisitely finished ; her left hand 
slightly holding up her dress. This admirable picture is a companion to the 
one by the same artist of Charles I. The attitude is easy and natural, and 
the disposition of the drapery graceful and correct. 

Henrietta Maria was the sixth and youngest daughter of 
Henry IV. of France, by Mary, daughter of Francis de Medici, 
grand Duke of Tuscany, and was born on the 25th Nov. 1609, 
and married Charles I. King of England in June, 1625. Hen- 
rietta Maria was unfortunately a zealous disciple of the Church 
of Rome, a religion to which at that time the mass of the people 
were strongly opposed. After the assassination of the Duke 
of Buckingham, the friend and confidant of Charles, the Queen 
alone shared his entire confidence, and it is to be feared by her 
counsels, contributed to lay the foundation of those differences 
between the King and his Parliament, which eventually cost 
him his throne and his life. 

She was a woman of undaunted courage and resolution, and 
her manners and disposition were so engaging that she failed 
not to interest in her behalf all who came within the sphere of 
her personal influence. By her activity and address, Charles 
was often supplied with the means of carrying on the war. 



34 GOODWOOD. 

After her return from Holland, whither she went for the pur- 
pose of procuring money and arms, by her own efforts she 
raised and equipped a powerful force at York, consisting of 
thirty troops of horse and three thousand infantry, at whose 
head she rode and met the king at Edge Hill. In 1644, hav- 
ing been impeached by the Commons of high treason, at the 
earnest solicitation of Charles, she quitted England for France, 
where she resided, with little exception, till her death in 1669 

1 2. Portrait of George, third Earl of Albemarle, in red 
uniform. Romney. 

(4/f. by $ft. 3 m.) 
George, third Earl of Albemarle, a Knight of the Garter, 
General in the Army, was Commander in Chief at the Reduc- 
tion of Havannah. His mother was Anne, daughter of Charles, 
first Duke of Richmond. 



13. A Madona. Trevisani (Francesco. 

{2 ft. by 1 ft. 8 in.) 
Trevisani, a distinguished Italian painter, born 1656, died 1760. 
He lived many years, enjoying a high reputation, at Rome, and was 
much employed by Pope Clement XI. in painting sacred subjects. He 
peculiarly excelled in copying the best pictures of more eminent ar- 
tists, and he executed many capital pictures from Coreggio, Parme- 
giano and Paul Veronese, for the Duke of Modena. 

14. Portraits of the five children of Charles I., viz. : — 
Charles Prince of Wales, James Duke of York, and 
the Princesses Elizabeth, Mary, and Anne. Vandyke. 

(5 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 6 in.) 
The Prince elegantly dressed in the costume of the period, in a red silk 
vest and broad lace frill, stands in the centre, seen in a front view, with his 



GOODWOOD. 35 

left hand on the head of a large dog. His two eldest sisters are richly at- 
tired; the nearest one to the spectator in white satin, is on his right, and 
his sister Anne is on the opposite side, holding her infant brother on a chair. 

15. Portraits of Charles, second Duke of Richmond, in 
armour, and of Sarah, his Duchess, in half figures. 

(5 ft. 4 in. by 4 ft.) 

16. A Madona. Trevisani. 

(2 ft. 1 by 1 ft. 1.) 
Distinguished from the one recently noticed, by the same artist, by the 
more youthful appearance and greater beauty of the subject ; the hands are 
crossed on the breast, and the countenance is turned upwards and expressive 
of the deepest devotion ; it is a very pleasing and beautiful picture. 

17. Portrait of Francis Lord Brudenel. 

(Small oval.) 
This nobleman was the son of Robert, second Earl of Cardi- 
gan, and died during his father's life-time. He was the father 
of Anne, wife of *he first Duke of Richmond. 

18. Portrait of Anne, wife of Charles, first Duke of 
Richmond. Sir Godfrey Kneller. 

(4/*. by 3/*.4 in.) 
The daughter of Francis Lord Brudenel, the subject of the last named 
Picture, born 1672, died 1723. She is represented in a blue negligee, dis- 
posed in the usual style of Kneller. 

19. Portrait of Charles, first Duke of Richmond, 

Sir Godfrey Kneller. 

(2 ft. 5 in. by 2 ft.) 



36 GOODWOQD. 

The coloring, with the exception of the countenance, which is seen in a 
front view, is dark, and the details indistinct. This picture cannot cer- 
tainly be classed among Kneller's best performances. 

This nobleman was the natural son of King Charles II. and 
Louise de Querouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, born July 29, 
1672 ) Charles, being present at his baptism, gave him the sur- 
name of Lennox, and his own christian name. In the first year 
of his age, he was created, by his royal father, Baron of Set- 
rington, Earl of March, and Duke of Richmond, by letters pa- 
tent, dated at Westminster, August 9th, 1675. 

The title and estates of the Richmond and Lennox family 
of the Stuart line having devolved to the Crown on the death 
of James Stuart, Duke of Richmond, the husband of the 
beautiful and accomplished Miss Stewart, and a most honorable 
and high-minded nobleman, " his Majesty considering with 
what lustre and glory the house of Lennox had shone in 
former times, and in order that the honor might be again 
revived, bestowed the estate of Lennox on his son, and by let- 
ters patent, passed in Scotland on September 9th, 1675, 
created him Duke of Lennox, Earl of Darnley, and Baron Me- 
thuen of Torbolton, and the heirs male of his body." 

He was elected on April 7, 1681, Knight Companion of the 
Garter, and installed at Windsor on the 20th of the same month. 
On the removal of the Duke of Monmouth, he was made Mas- 
ter of the Horse to the King, but on the accession of King 
James II. to the Throne, his mother having promoted the Bill 
of Exclusion, he was removed from that office. He was em- 
ployed in active service in Flanders, during the reign of William 
III., to whom he served as Aid-de-Camp. He was also one of 
the Lords of the Bedchamber to George I. He married 1692, 
Anne, second daughter of Francis Lord Brudenel, eldest son 
of Robert Earl of Cardigan, and left issue : — first, Charles se- 
cond Duke of Richmond, Lennox, and Aubigny; second, Louise, 






GOODWOOD. 37 

married to James third Earl of Berkeley ; third, Anne, married 
to William second Earl of Albemarle. He died at Goodwood, 
May 27, 1723, and was buried in Henry VII. 's Chapel in 
Westminster Abbey. His remains were afterwards removed 
to the Mausoleum under the East end of Chichester Cathedral. 

20. Portrait of the Hon. Stephen Fox, second Lord 

Holland, when a youth. 

(Small oval. J 
This nobleman was the eldest son of Henry Fox, first Lord 
Holland, born Feb. 20, 1745, and died 1774. He was suc- 
ceeded by the present Henry Richard Vassal Fox, Baron 
Holland. 

21. Portrait of Charles, second Duke of Richmond, 

when Earl of March. 

Qi ft. by 3 ft. 4 in.) 

He is represented in a light dress with a red cloak thrown over the 
shoulder. 

A brief notice of the subject of this picture is given in ano- 
ther portion of the work. 

22^ Portrait of Frances Theresa, wife of the last Duke of 
Richmond, of the Stuart line, 

Sir Peter Lely. 

(2 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft.) 
A beautiful and highly finished picture ; the countenance, which is seen in 
a front view, is singularly lovely, the eyes full, and more expressive than 
Lely's usually are, and the hair tastefully arranged in ringlets. She is 
attired in a low blue dress, fastened on the breast with a large ornament 
and red mantle. 

A brief notice of this accomplished lady follows No. 103. 



38 GOODWOOD. 

Access from the Hall to the other parts of the house 
is obtained by four lofty entrances, two on either side, 
leading to the Dining, Music, Drawing, and Billiard 
Rooms. Crossing the Hall to the left, we enter the 

Dining Room, 
The general design of which was suggested from the 
drawings of Denon, the French antiquary, who accom- 
panied Napoleon and his army to Egypt. The walls are 
of scagliola, resembling a rich polished Sienna marble, 
and adorned with classical ornaments in bronze ; at the 
upper end is a noble looking glass, inserted in a fascia 
of grey marble, before which, on a low pedestal, stands 
a vase of Egyptian porphry, and on each side are small 
tables of choice granite. The lower end, or principal 
entrance of the room forms an alcove, in which are two 
niches containing marble busts of 

1. The third Duke of Richmond, 

2. The Marquis of Rockingham, Nollekens. 

And on two small semi-circular granite tables to corres- 
pond with those at the upper end, are marble busts of 

3. The Right Hon. William Pitt, Nollekens. 

4. The Duke of Wellington, Turnerelli. 

The chimney piece is of the finest statuary marble, 
adorned with bronze Egyptian hieroglyphics. The ge- 
neral appearance of this apartment is simple and elegant ; 



GOODWOOD. 39 

its extent is considerable, being in length upwards of 45 
feet, in width 24 feet, and in height 18 feet. Re-crossing 
the vestibule to the right, we enter the 

Drawing Room. 
A magnificent apartment, fitted up with a splendour 
suitable to the principal saloon of a Ducal residence. 
Nothing is here wanting which wealth and taste can 
supply. The decorations and furniture are of the 
most elegant and costly description : the walls are hung 
in rich amber-colored silk taboret, with full draperies 
to the three windows, and the luxuriant sofas, ottomans, 
couches, and cabriole chairs, are covered in the same 
material. 

Between the windows and over the fire places are four 
brilliant plate glasses of noble proportions ; beneath the 
two former, which are in frames finely carved and gilt, 
are two splendid console tables of Sienna marble highly 
polished, and supported by carved work, finely gilt, in 
the florid style of Louis XIV. On these, in addition to 
two French enamelled and ormolu time pieces of the same 
age, are costly sets of French china, in blue, green, and 
gold, exquisitely painted from subjects in natural his- 
tory, presented by Louis XV. to the third Duke of 
Richmond, when ambassador at the Court of Versailles. 

On a handsome mahogany pedestal between the win- 
dows, is a group of two dogs, in marble, executed by the 



40 GOODWOOD. 

Hon. Mrs. Darner, and presented by her to the third 
Duke of Richmond, her brother-in-law.* 

In different parts of the room are three rare and very 
highly finished cabinets in buhl and marquetrie, one of 
the drawers of which contain a beautiful worked shirt of 
Charles I., the collar pointed and open, reminding us of 
the portraits of this monarch by Vandyke, in which it is 
almost invariably introduced, and various articles in sil- 
ver, used during the infancy of Charles II. 

On each side of the entrance are two elaborately 

* Mrs. Damer was the only child of Field Marshal Henry Seymour 
Conway, and was born 1748. She presents an almost singular instance 
of a young and beautiful woman, of high birth and connections, and 
amply blessed with wealth, resigning the ease and luxury of life, the 
attractions of society, and the devotion of the world, to cultivate with 
ardour and perseverance, an art, than which none requires more in- 
cessant drudgery, or demands a greater sacrifice of time and patience- 
Mrs. Darner's genius was of a high order, and " many of her busts 
from the life are not inferior to the antique." Among her principal 
performances were, a bust of Charles James Fox, presented on the 
1st May, 1815, in person, to Napoleon ; abust of Nelson, heroic size, 
of Sir H. Davy, of the Duchess of Devonshire, of Sir J. Banks, and a 
statue, eight feet high, of George III. 

Independently of her attachment to, and proficiency in sculpture, 
Mrs. Damer was no ordinary woman ; she was the friend and admirer 
of Fox, and joined the Duchess of Devonshire in the famous canvass 
of Westminster ; she sent her respects and good wishes to Napoleon 
as he departed for the last of his fields, and she entertained Queen 
Caroline during her memorable trial. She was the friend and com- 
panion of Josephine Beauharnois, nor was she forgotten when that 
extraordinary woman became Empress of France ; the present of a 
valuable piece of china, and an invitation to Paris, were the proofs of 
her attachment and sincerity. Mrs. Damer died in the spring of 
1828, in the eightieth year of her age. 



GOODWOOD. 41 

carved rosewood cabinets, with plate glass fronts and 
sienna marble tops, filled with numerous articles of bi- 
joutrie, consisting of gold and other snuff boxes, with 
miniatures set in diamonds, watches of the age of Charles 
I., coins, medals, crosses, stars, &c, and numerous small 
pieces of choice china. On the chimney pieces and 
tables are scattered unique specimens of china and or- 
molu ornaments. The room is lighted by two superb 
ormolu chandeliers suspended from the ceiling, as well 
as by candelabra on the marble tables- The floor is of 
oak, in parquetage, and covered by a rieh Axminster 
carpet of great weight and thickness, wrought in flowers 
of uncommon brilliancy of colours. Before each fire- 
place are cheval screens in needle-work, displaying 
groups of flowers, most admirably executed, with plate 
glass fronts, the frames carved and gilt. The apart- 
ment opens into, and is terminated by one of the round 
towers, fitted up in a corresponding style of elegance. 

Crossing the vestibule, we accompany the stranger to 
the 

Corridor, or Music Room, 
A plain but elegant apartment, the walls of which are 
studded with some of the choicest productions of the old 
masters. Of these, one of the most striking, from its 
merits and the painful associations connected with its 
subject, is 

F 



42 GOODWOOD. 

23. A Portrait of James, Duke of Monmouth, 

Sir G. Kneller. 

(7 ft. by 4 ft. 9 in.) 
A full length portrait of this unfortunate nobleman, in the artist's hap- 
piest style. He is represented in his robes of state, wearing the insignia of 
the Order of the Garter. The air of courtliness and dignity, so charac- 
teristic of Monmouth, is well expressed in this admirable picture. 

James, Duke of Monmouth, natural son of Charles II. by 
Lucy Walters, born 1650, beheaded 15th July, 1685. Repos- 
sessed qualities well calculated to render him an ornament of 
the Court, and a favourite of the English people, — an affable 
address, a thoughtless generosity, and a graceful person -, he 
was always a great favourite with his father, who lavished on 
him extraordinary honors. To this partiality, combined with 
his general popularity, may be ascribed the rash attempt which 
he afterwards made to dethrone his uncle James II., and which 
terminated in his total defeat at the battle of Sedgemore. 
James's conduct towards Monmouth has been justly condemned 
as harsh and unfeeling. He met his fate with a courage suited 
to his rank and character. 



24. A Battle Piece between the Austrians and the Turks. 

Breydell, (Charles.) 

(Iff. 1 in. by 8 in.) 
Forming a pair with No. 37. A most spirited composition. 
Breydell (Charles), born at Antwerp, 1677, died 1744. He was a 
pupil of Rysbrack, the landscape painter ; he, however, is more re- 
puted as a painter of battles, and attacks of cavalry, which are inge- 
niously composed and executed with spirit. 

25. Portrait of Killegrew, Vandyke. 

(Z ft. 2 in. by 2ft. Sin.) 



GOODWOOD. 43 

The subject of this picture is represented with his hand resting on the 
head of a large dog. He wears a cuirass, with red sleeves slashed, his light 
brown hair falls over the shoulders, and the countenance, a three-quarter 
view, is eminently handsome. 

Thomas Killegrew, Page of Honor to Charles I. and Groom 
of the Bedchamber to Charles IT., born 1611, died 1682, au- 
thor of several comedies and tragedies. He was a favorite 
and boon companion of the " Merry Monarch," of whose court 
he was one of the most distinguished wits. 

26. A Head painted on wood. Subject and artist un- 
known. 

27. Ruins and Sea-port, Salvator Rosa. 

(7 ft. by 5 ft.) 

This picture, from its merits and position, is one of the most sticking in 
the room ; it represents a sea port crowded with ships and galleys, and nu- 
merous figures engaged in occupations connected with the subject ; on the 
right hand are fine and picturesque ruins, the coloring, especially of the sky, 
is clear and transparent. 

Salvator Rosa, a celebrated Italian painter of history, landscapes, 
battles, and sea pieces, was born 1614 and died 1673. His pictures 
were principally distinguished by boldness and grandeur of concep- 
tion. Sea-ports, with figures, were favorite subjects of his pencil, 
and are highly esteemed : but his great excellence lay in landscape ; 
and he delighted in representiug scenes of desolation, solitude and 
danger, gloomy forests, rocky shores, lonely dells leading to caverns 
of banditti, alpine bridges, trees scathed by lightning, and skies low- 
ring with thunder. One of his most famous pictures, Saul and the 
Witch of Endor, is at Versailles. 

28. Troops on the March, Vander Meulen. 

(11 in. by 8 in.) 
Forming a pair with No. 33. The figures and horses are well drawn, 
and touched ivith great spirit. 



44 GOODWOOD. 

Vander Meulen, a Flemish painter, born 1634, died 1690, was 
much employed by Louis XIV. whom he attended in several cam- 
paigns, for the purpose of representing his victories ; and hence he is 
distinguished by the number and excellence of his battle pieces. 

29. Brigands, Breydell. 

{Small oval, 3§ in. by 2§ in.) 



30. Small Landsape, Breydell, 

(5 in. by 4 in.) 
Forming a pair with No. 32. 



31. Boor mending a Matchlock. Teniers. 

(l/t.by Win.) 
The subjects of Teniers are chiefly taken from low life ; the sports, 
pastimes, and occupations of the peasantry, have been admirably de- 
lineated by his pencil ; his smaller pieces have been preferred to his 
larger ones. His pictures are generally clear in all their parts, and 
beautifully transparent. His principal subjects are landscapes and 
interior views, with figures, merry-makings, fairs, drinking bouts, 
and village diversions and sports. He was born at Antwerp, 1610, 
and died 1694. 



32. Small Landscape, Breydell. 

(5 in. by 4 in.) 
Forming a pair with No. 30. 



33. Troops skirmishing, Vander Meulen, 

(11 in. by 8 in.) 
Forming a pair with No. 28. 






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34. Small Landscape, 


Breydell. 


{Small oval 3£ in. by 2£ in.) 




Forming a pair with No. 29. 





35. Portrait of Carew, Vandyke. 

(Bft.2in.by2ft.8in. 

The subject of this admirable picture is represented in the act of speaking. 
The countenance is lightened up, as if the painter had transferred to his can- 
vass the mind as well as the features of the man. The expression of the 
whole figure is most spirited. 

Carew was of the Privy Council of Charles I. ; he was a ce- 
lebrated wit and poet of his day, and his productions still find 
a place among the choicest collections of the early English 
writers. He was born 1590 and died 1639. 



36. Portrait of a Flemish Nobleman, Rembrant. 

(7ft.by4ft.6in.) 

This noble picture, certainly one of the gems of the collection, represents 
the figure of a man in the prime of life ; the expression of the countenance 
is open and manly, the figure easy and dignified. There is a sombre majesty 
thrown over the whole ichich rivets the attentim of the beholder. A dark 
mantle over a rich drab dress, with a cap and feather on the high and 
haughty broio, complete the equipment. 

Rembrant, a most eminent and distinguished painter, was born at 
Leyden, 1606, and died 1674. He has been termed by Fuseli a 
meteor in art. He was chiefly a painter of portraits, and in a faithful 
representation of nature, in simplicity of expression, individuality of 
character, and an unconstrained action, combined with uncommon 
strength of expression both in look and gesture, none can be said to 
have surpassed him. His landscapes are among the rarest of his works. 
11 Breadth and squareness of execution, and brilliancy of effect, are 
the main characteristics of his style." 



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37 Battle Piece between the Austrians and Turks, 

C. Beydell. 

Forming a pair with No. 24. 



38. Head of a young Warrior, Guercino. 

(2 f t by 1 ft. 10 in.) 
The coloring- of this picture is vigorous and brilliant, and the counte- 
nance, which is seen in a three-quarter view, is full of energy and animation* 
A cap and plume overshadow the forehead, and give an elevated expression 
to the features. 

Guercino, or Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, a celebrated Italian 
painter, born 1590, died 1666. His pictures are remarkable for dis- 
playing three distinct styles, which he adopted in different periods of 
his life ; his first was copied from Caravaggio, in which his colouring is 
not deemed harmonious ; his second and best was compounded of the 
Roman, Venetian, and Bolognese schools ; his last manner was a pal- 
pable imitation of Guido, in which his efforts were not perfectly 
successful. 



39. Portrait of a Gentleman, name unknown, 

Tintoretto. 

(3 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 10 in.) 

A fine and striking picture. It represents a man of middle age, in a 
high black dress, slightly open in front, shewing a red vest under ; his left 
arm is leaning on a table which is covered with an embroidered cloth, and 
his right hand rests on the hilt of his sword, he wears a dark low cap. The 
coloring is most effective, the stern and expressive features are admirably 
opposed to the deep shadoivs of the dress and back ground, and the attitude 
is easy and dignified. 

Tintoretto, one of the most eminent painters of the Italian school, 
was a pupil of Titian, and many of his pictures bear a strong resem- 
blance to those of his master, a fact evident in this specimen of his 
genins. He was highly esteemed at Venice, where he painted several 
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bold and free, and his judicious introduction of strong lights and deep 
shadows gives a peculiar depth and energy to his subjects. 



40. Landscape, George Smith. 

(Small oval, 1 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft. 1 in. J 
A notice of the works of this artist is given in another part. 



41. Portrait of the Marquis of Montrose. Vandyke. 

(2/*.byljft.8i».) 

The face is represented in a three-quarter view, and the head is unco- 
vered ; the dress red and open at the breast. 

The Marquis of Montrose was one of the most distinguished 
victims of the civil wars ; he deservedly possessed the friend- 
ship and confidence of Charles I., to whom he rendered nume- 
rous and valuable services. After the execution of the king, he 
landed in Scotland and endeavoured to raise troops for the 
young prince ; being however defeated and taken, he was car- 
ried to Edinburgh, where every indignity which malice could 
invent was heaped upon him j he was hanged on the 21st of 
May, 1650. Montrose was a man of the most undaunted cou- 
rage, and his high and chivalrous character, combined with his 
melancholy fate, have attached the deepest interest to his name 
and story. 



42. Portrait of James Stuart, Duke of Richmond, Lely. 

(2 ft. 4in.by 2ft.) 

This nobleman was the eldest son of Esme Stuart, Duke of 

Lennox, (first cousin once removed to King James I.,) born 

1612, died 1055. He was the personal friend of Charles I. 

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of the Civil War : he followed with unshrinking courage the 
sinking fortunes of his master, and after the execution of Charles, 
was permitted to perform the last melancholy office of consign- 
ing his remains to the grave. He married the only daughter 
of the favorite Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at Ports- 
mouth, and left one son, who died at the age of ten years, and 
one daughter, who married the Earl of Arran, second son of 
James Duke of Ormond. 



43. Portrait, inscribed " Maximilian, Duke of Bavaria, 

1640." 

(3 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 9 in.) 

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44. Historical Piece, Salvator Rosa. 

(Oval, 1 ft. 2 in. by 11 in.) 

It represents a warrior in armour, ivho may be supposed to have been 
taken prisoner, bound to two trees and left to perish ; a rude crucifix lies 
below him. The style is bold, and the coloring is deep and vivid. 

45. Portrait of Marie de Medici, Pourbus, Jun. 

(3/f. 9 in. by 3 ft. 2 in.) 

The widow of Henri IV. of France, and mother of Henrietta Maria, 
Queen of Charles I. She is represented in a mourning habit, holding in 
her hand two roses, and on a table by her side is the crown of France. 

Marie de Medici played a conspicuous part in the affairs of 
France after the death of Henri IV. by the ascendancy which 
she acquired over her son. She was a woman of weak charac- 
ter, wanting both firmness and sagacity ; over the mind of her 
husband she had never succeeded in exercising any influence j 
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46. Grotesque Piece. 

Oft. 7 in. by lft. 2 in.) 
Representing an old woman warming her hands over afire, the reflection 
from which throws a red tinge over the whole. This picture has been always 
ascribed to F. Halls, a famous portrait painter, contemporary with Van- 
dyke. It seems, however, from its style and general character, more 
probably to be the work of his brother, Dirk Halls, a Flemish artist, wetf 
known for his humorous and comic subjects. 

47. Portrait of Charles Lennox, second Duke of Rich- 

mond. 

(2 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft.) 
A small whole length, in full black dress, and standing in a kind of ves- 
tibule and library. 

Charles, second Duke of Richmond, Lennox, and Aubigny, 
in the life -time of his father, was chosen a Member of the House 
of Commons for the City of Chichester, as also for the borough 
of Newport in the county of Southampton, in the Parliament 
summoned to meet on May 10, 1722. And when George I. 
revived the antient military Order of Knighthood of the Bath, 
he was declared one of the Knights of that Order, anno. 1725. 
Also, on May 26, 1726, was elected one of the Knights Com- 
panions of the most noble Order of the Garter, and installed at 
Windsor on June 1 6 following ; at which time he was one of 
the Lords of the Bedchamber, and Aid-de-Camp to his Majesty. 
Likewise, on the accession of George II. he was constituted one 
of the Lords of the Bedchamber, as also Aid- de-Camp to his 
Majesty ; and at his coronation, on October 17, 1727, was 
High-Constable of England for the day. 

The Duchess of Portsmouth dying on November 14, 1734, 
the dukedom of Aubigny in France, with the Peerage of that 
kingdom, devolved on his Grace, and on January 8, 1734-5, he 
was appointed Master of the Horse to his Majesty, and the next 

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day sworn of his most honorable Privy Council. July 2, 1739, 
his Grace was made Brigadier-general ; on February 16, 1739- 
40, elected one of the Governors of the Charter-house ; on May 
12, 1740, declared one of the Lords' Justices for the adminis- 
tration of the government during his Majesty's absence $ Janu- 
ary 1, 1741-2, constituted Major-general, and of the Staff of 
General Officers for South Britain, also June 6, 1745, promoted 
to the rank of Lieutenant-general. In 1743 his Grace attend- 
ed the King during the campaign, and was present at the bat- 
tle of Dettingen, June 27. He had been declared one of the 
Lords' Justices of the kingdom before his Majesty's departure, 
and was also in that most honorable trust in 1 745 . 

The same year the Pretender's eldest son, Charles, landing in 
Scotland, and advancing as far as Derby, his Grace attended 
the Duke of Cumberland in his expedition against the insur- 
gents, and assisted in the reduction of Carlisle. In 1748, his 
Grace was again appointed one of the Lords' Justices of the 
kingdom, as also in 1750. On the death of the Duke of So- 
merset, he was chosen High- steward of the City of Chichester -, 
and his Grace accompanying the Duke of Newcastle to his in- 
stallation at Cambridge, was admitted to the degree of Doctor 
of Physic, July 3, 1749. In August following, his Grace and 
the Duchess set out for France, to see his territories there, and 
returned to their house in Privy-gardens, October 27, the same 
year. On February 1 7 following,, his Grace was constituted 
Colonel of the royal regiment of horse guards ; and departed 
this life, generally lamented, August 8, 1750. 

His Grace married, at the Hague, December 4, 1719, Sarah, 
eldest daughter and co-heir of William Earl of Cadogan, and one 
of the Ladies of the bedchamber to Queen Caroline, died Aug. 
25, 1751, and had issue — 1. Lady Georgina Carolina Lennox, 
married 1744 the first Lord Holland — 2. A son who died im- 
mediately after his birth — 3. Lady Louisa Margaret Lennox, 



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died an infant — 4. Lady Anne Lennox, died an infant — 5. 
Charles Earl of March, born 1730 and died the same year — 

6. Lady Emilia Lennox, married James Duke of Leinster — 

7. Charles, afterwards third Duke of Richmond — 8. Lord 
George Henry Lennox, the father of the fourth Duke of Rich- 
mond — 9. Lady Margaret Lennox, died an infant— 10. Lady 
Louisa Lennox, married Thomas Conolly, Esq. — 11. Lady Sa- 
rah Lennox, married Sir C. Bunbury, Bart. 

48. Frost Piece, Ostade. 

(1 ft. 2 in. by 1 ft.) 

Representing' travellers taking refreshment at the door of a village ale- 
house ; in the hack ground is a frozen river, on which are severaljigures. 

Adrian Van Ostade, a Flemish painter of great eminence, born 
1610, died 1685. His subjects are usually taken from low life, and 
bear much resemblance to those of Teniers ; his figures are universally 
admired, and there is a peculiar and uncommon transparence through 
all his works. Ostade's pictures are now very scarce, and bring high 
prices. 

49. Exterior of a Monastery, J. Vander Heyden. 

(11 in. by 8 in.) 

Forming a pair with No. 62; a most elaborately finished picture ; all the 
detail of the building is given with singular accuracy and fidelity, without 
being hard or stiff; the coloring is light and transparent. 

J. Vander Heyden, a celebrated Dutch painter, born 1637, died 
1712. His best pieces represent picturesque views of the diff erent 
towns in Holland, in which he has introduced the most minute sub- 
jects with extraordinary neatness and precision. The lightness of his 
touch, and the mellowness of his colouring, take away all appearance 
of drudgery and labour. 

50. Portrait of the Duchess of Portsmouth, Sir P. Lely. 

(I ft. 8 in. by lft. 4 in.) 
A small whole length, most elaborately finished. 



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51. Virgin and Child, in wood, most curiously inlaid, 
copied from a picture by Parmigiani, Le Sieur. 
{2 ft. 1 in. by lft. 7 in.) 



52. Landscape, with figures, representing the Fable of 
Narcissus, F. Mola. 

(2 ft. by 1 ft. 7 in.) 

This picture is a good specimen of the style and talents of Mola ; the con- 
ception is bold and the coloring vigorous. 

P. F. Mola, an eminent Italian artist, born 1609, died 1665. The 
pictures of Guercino were particularly the objects of his admiration; 
his scenery is sometimes solemn and sublime, his touch firm and free, 
and his colouring unusually vigorous and glowing ; his figures are usu- 
ally taken from some history or fable. 



53. View of London Bridge on copper, 
(1 ft. by 9 in.) 
Forming a pair with No. 56. An imitation of CanallettVs style and co- 
louring ; done on copper. 



54. Prison Scene, Barrocio. 

(lft. 7 in.by lft. 3 in.) 

Representing the interior of a prison, in which is a female strongly hound 
and guarded ; she is condemned according to the inscription to the pains of 
torture, by having her breasts cut off. St. Peter appears to her in the 
night, and is seen placing his right hand on her breast and pointing his left 
to an angel, who is descending with a palm branch and a wreath of roses in 
his hand. 

Barrocio (Frederico), a painter of eminence, born at Urbino 
1528, died 1612. His best pictures are sacred subjects, painted at 
Rome, which he twice visited. An elegant taste and great harmony 
of coloring are most to be admired in his works. He adopted the 



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manner of Coreggio as the model of his imitation, with whom, how- 
ever, he cannot be compared. 



55. The Nativity, Barrocio. 

(2 ft. 3 in. by I ft. 7 in.) 

Another and better specimen of this artist's performance. The infant 
Jesus is seen lying on a rude couch, in the midst of a ruinous building, at- 
tended by Mary and Joseph ; angels and shepherds are seen ministering 
around. Above are the words, " Gloria in excelsis." 



56. View in Paris, on copper. 

(1 ft. by 9 in.) 
Forming a pair with No, 52. 



57. Head of a Beggar, Le Nain. 

(2 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft.) 
A fine subject, full of character and expression. 

Le Nain, a French artist, flourished about 1650 He excelled in 
painting domestic subjects, and assemblages of peasantry. 



58. The Crucifixion. 

(1 ft. 8 in. by 1 ft. 2 in.) 

A highly finished copy from one of the old masters ; it represents only 
the figure of the crucified Saviour, which occupies the centre of the picture ; 
the time chosen seems to be when " there was darkness from the sixth hour 
until the ninth ;" and the shadows of the sky and landscape contrast well 
with the paleness of the flesh. 



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59. The Entombing of Christ. 

(3 ft. 3 in. by 2 ft. 4 in.) 
A highly finished copy from A. Caracci; Joseph of Arimathea and ano- 
ther are placing the body of Christ in the tomb, the two Marys and a disci- 
ple are standing by weeping ; in the fore-ground is a basket with the crown 
of thorns and nails. The colouring of the flesh of the Saviour has fully im- 
parted the marble- like appearance of death ; it is a striking and effective 
picture. 



60. Sobieski, King of Poland, on horseback. 

(2 ft. 1 in. by lft. 7 in. 

John Sobieski, King of Poland, an eminent warrior and 
statesmen, was born 1624, and elected King in 1674 ; he pro- 
secuted a war against the Turks, with unexampled success - } 
his most famous action was the defeat of the Turkish army, un- 
der the walls of Vienna. He died 1696. 



61. St. Michael, Guido. 

(3 ft. 2 in. by 4 ft. 9 in.) 
An unfinished sketch representing the arch-angel with a flaming sword, 
overthrowing the rebellious angels. It is executed with much spirit and 
freedom, but displays no evidence of finish ; the conception is grand and 
sublime. It is believed to have been the original design of the large paint- 
ing of the same subject, now in the church of Capuchin Convent, at Rome, 
and which is considered to be Guido' s finest production ; the figure of the 
arch-angel has been termed the Apollo Belvidere of painting. 



62. Monastic View, Vander Heyden. 

(11 in. by 8 in.) 
Forming a pair with No. 49. 






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63. Portraits, small whole lengths, of John and Bernard 
Stuart, sons of Esme, Duke of Lennox. 

(2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in.) 

64. Portrait, small whole length, of General Wolfe. 

(lft. 2 vi.bylft.) 
In uniform ; in the back ground the troops are represented storming the 
heights of Abraham, where Wolfe fell in the moment of victory, 

65. Portrait of Anne, wife of the first Duke of Richmond, 

Kneller. 

(3 ft. 6 in. by S ft. 3 m.) 
In a sitting attitude, the right arm resting on a pedestal, the hand open 
and thrown forward, and the countenance elevated as if in the act of speak- 
ing ; the left hand holds flowers ; a low blue dress, and a chain around the 
shoulders. 



66. Grotesque Piece, D. Halls. 

(lft. 7 in. by I ft. 2 in.) 
Forming a pair with No. 46. 

67. Portrait of a Lady, Sir P. Lely. 

(2 ft. 4: in. by 2ft.) 

68. The Itinerant Musician, Ostade. 

(lft. 5 in. by lft. 1 in.) 
An oldman in a weather-beaten hat and tattered suit, is playing a hurdy- 
gurdy, and a lad in a red cap and dingy suit, over which is a kind of green 
cloak, is playing on the violin ; four other figures are listening to the music ; 
they appear to be standing outside a door, which forms an arch to the entire 
picture. 



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6*9. The Reckoning, Tilburg. 

(2 ft. lin. by 1ft. 7 in) 

Two cavaliers of the Interregnum, after regaling themselves at 
an inn, are applied to very naturally by their host for the amount 
of their reckoning, the state of their finances is emphatically told 
to him by the one that is holding up his empty inverted glass, while 
the other is employing all his eloquence, and the last full glass of 
liquor left, to appease his anger ; the ludicrous countenance of the 
Boy-waiter, who is holding out his disappointed, yet expecting 
hand, together with the hasty manner in which the hostess is seen 
removing from the table some silver plate is truly laughable. 

Giles Van Tilburg, born at Brussels, 1625, became a pupil of 
Teniers, whose style he imitated with much success. His pictures 
represent peasants regaling, and village feasts, which are ingeniously 
composed and vigorously colored. 

70. Jealousy, or, The Courtship Detected, Ostade. 

(l/f.by 11 in.) 
An admirable picture, representing an old man with wrinkled 
face and white beard, holding a pitcher in his right hand, from 
which he is regaling a young girl, apparently the servant ; his left 
hand is around her neck ; the angry and not very interesting coun- 
tenance of the wife, is seen above at an open window, from which 
she is intently watching the delinquent pair. 



71. Portrait of Helena Forman, the second wife of 
Rubens, Rubens. 

(2 ft. 4 in. by lft. 9 in.) 
Represented in a black cap or turban, the light, bushy, flaxen 
hair falling in curls and thrown back ; the dress is black, with a 
white collar covering the shoulders and open down the front of the 
bosom; she wears a pearl necklace and ear-rings. Rubens painted 
a great number of portraits of this elegant lady ; she was only 
sixteen when he married her, and of extraordinary beauty. 



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Sir Peter Paul Rubens, one of the most consummate painters that 
ever lived, was born at Antwerp 1577, died 1640. He early obtained 
a high celebrity through Europe, and visited England during the reign 
of Charles I., being employed in a ministerial capacity by the King 
of Spain. From Charles he received the honor of knighthood as a 
public acknowledgment of his merit. His style of coloring is lively, 
glowing and natural, his expression noble and just, and his invention 
amazingly fertile. His pencil is mellow, his execution remarkably 
free, and his pictures are finished in such a manner as to produce a 
pleasing and a striking effect. He is by all allowed to have carried 
the art of coloring to its highest pitch ; for he so thoroughly understood 
the true principles of the chiaro scuro, and so judiciously and happily 
managed it, that he gave the utmost roundness, relief, and harmony, 
to each particular figure, and to the whole together ; and his groups 
were disposed with such accurate skill, as to attract, and indeed ge- 
nerally to compel, the eye of the spectator to the principal object. 
His draperies are simple, but grand, broad, and well placed ; and his 
carnations have truly the look of nature, and the warmth of real life. 
The greatest excellence of Rubens appeared in his grand composi- 
tions ; for, as they were to be seen at a distance, he laid on a proper 
body of colours with an uncommon freedom of hand, and fixed all his 
different tints in their proper places ; by which method he never im- 
paired their lustre by breaking or torturing them, but touched them 
only in such a manner as to give them a lasting force, beauty, and 
harmony. He also painted landscapes admirably, in a style scarce 
inferior to Titian, with unusual force and truth, though the forms of 
his trees are not always elegant. It would require a volume to recite 
and describe the prodigious number of pictures painted by this truly 
famous artist ; every part of Europe possessing some of the produc- 
tions of his pencil. Rubens was an elegant and accomplished scholar. 



72. View in Venice. Canaletti. 

(2/£. 1 in. by lft. 6 in.) 

Forming a pair with No. 78. Representing the Rialto, and adjacent 
buildings ; several boats with figures are plying in the fore ground. 

Canaletti, (Canal Antonio,) a famous painter of perspective 
views, was born at Venice 1697, died 1768. His native city furnished 

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him with the most picturesque and interesting subjects for his works, 
which he treated with an intelligence of perspective and a conduct of 
aerial tint, that approach to illusion. The number of his pictures are 
immense, and they have all the appearance of being carefully finished. 



73. The Manege, P. Wovermans. 

(I ft. lOin. by I ft. 6 in.) 

One of the best pictures of the collection ; numerous figures on foot and 
horseback, admirably grouped, are emerging from a park entrance as if for 
an excursion ; a white stallion is somewhat unruly, and disturbs the rest by 
his prancing. 

Philip Wovermans, (or Wouwermans) was born at Haerlem, 1620. 
Although a painter of uncommon talent, he struggled with poverty 
throughout the whole of his life. His works possess all the excel- 
lencies we can wish, — high finishing, correctness, agreeable composi- 
tions, and a charming taste for coloring. His pictures usually repre- 
sent hunting and hawking parties, horse fairs, encampments, halts of 
travellers, and other subjects, into which he could introduce horses, 
which he designed with a correctness and spirit which have never 
been equalled. He had an amazing command of his pencil, so that 
instantly and effectually he expressed every idea conceived in his 
mind, and gave to his pictures an astonishing force, by broad masses 
of lights and shadows, by contrasting his lights and shadows with 
peculiar judgment, and giving an uncommon degree of transparence 
to the coloring of the whole. The pencil of Wovermans was mellow, 
and his touch free, though his pictures were finished most delicately ; 
his distances recede with true perspective beauty, and his skies, air, 
trees, and plants, are all exact and lovely imitations of nature. He 
died 1688. 



74. Cattle and Figures, Berchem. 

(1 ft. 9 in. by 1/f. 4 in.) 

75. Portrait of a Young Man. P. Vansomer. 

(2ft. 3 in. by I ft. Sin.) 



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Habited in a brown dress, with a wide collar falling on the shoulders ; in 
the dexter and upper angle of the picture is a shield bearing on afield Or, 
three squirrels, and under, the date " 1608, cetat 19." 

Paul Vansomer, born at Antwerp, 1576, was one of the ablest por- 
trait painters who visited England previous to Vandyke, and some of 
his productions are accounted not inferior to those of that master ; 
many of his pictures are at Hampton Court. 

76. Interior of a Cathedral, P. Neefs. 

(2 ft. 3 in. by l ft. 9 in.) 

A highly-finished interior view ; the details are most elaborately finished, 
and the coding is clear and bright. 

Peter Neefs, an eminent Flemish painter, was born 1570, died 
1651 ; he particularly excelled in delineating churches, convents, and 
gothic buildings ; he w r as thoroughly skilled in perspective, and de- 
scribed every part of the architecture of his subjects with such neat- 
ness of penciling, and such truth and patience, as made them rather 
objects of wonder than of imitation. 

77« Landscape and Figures, Salvator Rosa. 

(%ft. 9 in. by 2 ft. 10 in.) 
A wild scene, representing a dark, high, and overhanging rock, from 
which springs a natural bridge ; the back ground is seen through the rude 
arch ; boats and various picturesque figures, having the appearance of 
smugglers or banditti, are in the fore- ground. 

78. View in Venice, — the Custom House, Canaletti. 

(2 ft. 1 in. by 1 ft. 6 in.) 
Forming a pair with No. 72. 

79. A Woman selling Fruit and Poultry, Molenear. 

(lft.9in.bylft.6in.) 
The coloring, especially the dress of the female, is very brilliant. 



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John Molenear, a Dutch painter of drolleries and merry-makings ; 
his pictures are ingeniously composed, and colored with a richness 
and harmony approaching to the productions of A. Ostade. 



80. An Evening View on the Rhine, inscribed with the 
cypher, C. M. D. 

(1/*. 5 in. by 1ft.) 

Having thus completed the survey of the pictures in 
this apartment, we will conduct our visitor to the 

Waiting Room, 
In which are also entrances communicating with the 
Libraries, the Stair-case Hall, the Dining Room, the 
Kitchen, and other Offices ; on the walls are numerous 
portraits. 

81. Portrait of Lord George H. Lennox, Romney. 

(3 ft. 2 in. by 2 ft. 4 a) 
A three-quarter length, in a scarlet coat and white embroidered waist- 
coat, his left hand is resting on a pedestal, and with his right hand he is 
caressing a spaniel ; the hands are most exquisitely finished. 

Lord George Henry Lennox was the second son of the second 
Duke of Richmond, married, 1569, Lady Louisa, daughter of 
William Ker, Earl of Ancram, afterwards Marquis of Lothian, 
died 1805, leaving three daughters and one son, who, in 1806, 
on the death of his uncle, Charles third Duke of Richmond 
without issue, succeeded to the title and estates. His Lord- 
ship was returned for Chichester at the general Election in 
]76l, and held the rank of Colonel in the army, with the com- 
mand of the twenty-fifth regiment of Infantry. 



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82. Portrait of Charles, third Duke of Richmond, taken 
at the age of about five years. 
(2 ft. 4 in. by 2 ft.) 



83. Portrait of Charles, fourth Duke of Richmond, 

Romney. 

(4 ft. 2 in. by $ft. 4 in.) 

Taken when a youth ; represented in the f annul dress of the period, re~ 
dining on a bank, and playing with a dog t 



84. Lady Louisa Lennox, Romney. 

(3 ft. 2 in. by 2 ft. 4 in.) 

In a blue riding habit, with a spaniel. 

This Lady, the daughter of the Marquis of Lothian, was the 
wife of Lord G. H. Lennox, and mother of the fourth Duke of 
Richmond. 



85. Portrait of Mary, third Duchess of Richmond, at 
tambour, Sir J. Reynolds. 

(2 ft. 6 in. by 2ft.) 
This Lady was the eldest daughter and co-heir of Charles 
Bruce, Earl of Aylesbury, married the Duke of Richmond 
1757, and died without issue, 1796. 



86. Portrait of EmilyDuchess of Leinster, (in crayons.) 

(2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in.) 
A very pleasing production ; there is an air of great beauty and simpli- 
city in the countenance ; she wears a blue boddice over a high white dress. 



62 GOODWOOD. 

This Lady was the daughter of the second Duke of Rich- 
mond, and married in 1747 the Duke of Leinster ; being left a 
widow in 1773, she afterwards married W. Ogilvie, Esq., a 
gentleman of an ancient family in Scotland. A painful interest 
attaches to this illustrious lady as the mother of the high-spi- 
rited but unfortunate Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the talented and 
courageous leader of the Irish Insurrection in 1/98. The 
deeply interesting story of his melancholy fate has been made 
the subject of an admirable piece of biography by his country- 
man and admirer. Moore. 



87. Portrait of Georgiana Caroline, Lady Holland. 

(2 ft. by l ft. 6 in.) 
In crayons, to correspond with the precedi7ig ; in an open crimson dress, 
and white turban, with pearl necklace and ear-rings. 

This Lady was also a daughter of the second Duke of Rich- 
mond, and married 1744, Henry, first Lord Holland, by whom 
she had three sons. Of these the second was the Right Hon. 
Charles James Fox, the distinguished and eloquent opponent of 
William Pitt. 

88. Portrait of Lady Charles Spencer, Sir J. Reynolds. 

(2 ft. 6 in. by 2ft.) 
In a light open robe, the head and neck uncovered ; caressing a black 



89. Portrait of Charles, third Duke of Richmond, 

Sir J. Reynolds. 

(4 ft. by %ft. 4, in.) 
The third Duke of Richmond was born Feb. 22, l735-fi, and 
succeeded to the title and estates at the early age of fifteen. 



GOODWOOD. 63 

Like his father he chose the military profession, and in 1756 
was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the thirty-third Regiment 
of Foot ; two years after, he received the command of the se- 
venty-second, and in 1/61 obtained the rank of a Major General. 

On the accession of George III. his Grace was appointed a 
Lord of the Bedchamber, and at the Coronation carried the 
sceptre and dove. In 1763 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant 
and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Sussex, which office he 
held till his death. 

Great attention was paid to his education, and when only 
sixteen he set out on his travels, and remained some time abroad. 
While on the Continent, the Duke of Richmond appears to have 
imbibed a taste for the fine arts ; and there is but little doubt 
that the encouragement first afforded by him to the British ar- 
tists, finally led to the establishment of the present Royal Aca- 
demy. In March 1758, he opened a large apartment at his 
house in Whitehall, in which was displayed a large collection 
of original plaster-casts, taken from the best ancient statues 
and busts both of Rome and Florence. Every painter, sculp- 
tor, or student, was freely admitted j and, for the further en- 
couragement of genius, his Grace bestowed two medals annually 
on such as had exhibited the two best models. 

The Duke took his seat in the House of Lords 1756, and at- 
tached himself to the Whig interest, which at that period was 
headed by the first Duke of Newcastle. In 1776 he succeeded 
the Duke of Grafton in the office of Secretary of State for the 
Southern Department, under Lord Rockingham. The adminis- 
tration, however, held the seals of office but for a short time, 
and gave place to Lord North, who, during his memorable ca- 
reer, involved the country in a war with France, Spain, and 
Holland, lost America, and doubled the National Debt. 

During the whole of this momentous period, from 1/67 to 
to 1782, the Duke continued uniformly in the opposition. At 



64 GOODWOOD. 

the very commencement of the conflict, he deprecated a rupture 
with our Colonies ; and on the 18th of May, 1770, after an in- 
troductory speech, proposed eighteen resolutions to the House 
of Peers, which produced one of the most animated debates 
that ever occurred in Parliament. The misconduct of ministers 
during the four preceding years, was laid open in terms equally 
pointed and severe j and the future separation of the Trans- 
Atlantic provinces from the mother-country, was predicted with 
a degree of confidence and certainty that excites our wonder at 
the present moment. 

In addition to his determined opposition to the American 
war, his Grace was one of the strongest advocates for a Parlia- 
mentary Reform j and the measure which he introduced into the 
House of Lords in 1 781 on that important subject, was similar 
in many of its provisions to the famous Bill which in 1832 his 
illustrious descendant, as a cabinet minister, assisted to frame 
and carry, in the same assembly. 

The Duke's plan was to make the election of the representa- 
tives of the people annual, and the right of voting universal. 

The kingdom of Great Britain was to be divided into five 
hundred districts ; each district to contain an equal population, 
and to choose one member. 

The election to begin and end in one day. 

The people to be registered in each district three months be- 
fore the election, with their profession, trade, or employment, 
and the street or place of their abode. 

To give their votes in the parish-church of their residence 
before the church- wardens, who were to close the poll at the 
setting of the sun on the day the election was to commence, 
and deliver the same, personally, to the sheriff of the district, 
who was to sum up the whole on that day se'nnight, at the 
most central town of the district, and make his return of the 
person who had a majority of the suffrages of the people. 



GOODWOOD. 65 

Every male person in the country, who had attained the age 
of twenty-one years (criminals and insane persons only ex- 
cepted), to have a vote in the election of the representatives of 
the people. 

The Duke of Richmond had now become one of the most 
popular men in the kingdom, and he seemed, by every means 
in his power, to court the respect and esteem of his fellow -citi- 
zens. He, as well as the late Duke of Norfolk, and several 
other persons of the first consideration, had become a member 
of the Constitutional Society. His zeal for Parliamentary 
Reform was so glowing and ardent, that he became a delegate 
from the county of Sussex, for the purpose of obtaining the 
completion of this measure. When the Convention expressly 
assembled with this view, met at the St. Alban's Tavern, his 
Grace of Richmond was unanimously chosen President. 

On the retirement of Lord North in 1 782, Lord Rockingham 
and the Whigs again came into office, and the Duke of Richmond 
was appointed Master General of the Ordnance j within a few 
months, however, this administration was dissolved, and his 
Grace joined a strong opposition, under a young and eloquent 
leader, William Pitt, which by an unexampled degree of good 
fortune, uniting in their own persons both the royal and popular 
favour, fairly drove their enemies from the field and once more 
clothed themselves with the spoils ; on this occasion, December 
1783, the Duke of Richmond accepted his old office at the Ord- 
nance, which he retained till the latter end of the year 1795. 

During these many years his Grace directed his attention to 
the improvement of the fortifications of the island j and so ex- 
tensive and costly were his plans to effect his object, that the 
House of Commons took the alarm, and the whole scheme was 
set aside, after a decision in which the casting vote of the 
Speaker turned the balance. 

Shortly after the resignation of his office, his Grace retired 



66 GOODWOOD. 

from public life and devoted himself to the improvement of his 
estates ; he lived almost wholly at Goodwood, and personally 
superintended the extensive alterations which he contemplated, 
and lived to carry in a great measure into effect. He died at 
Goodwood, Dec. 29, 1806, in the 70th year of his age, and was 
buried in the family vault in the Cathedral Church of Chichester. 
The Duke of Richmond is acknowledged to have been one of 
the greatest men of his day, and to have derived this greatness 
neither from his rank, which was eminent, nor his fortune, 
which he had, by a prudent economy in his establishment, 
greatly increased, but by his talents and abilities alone. 

Reynolds (Sir Joshua), a celebrated English historical and portrait 
painter, born at Plympton, near Plymouth, Devonshire, in 1723, and 
died 1792. He early gave indication of his taste and talents for paint- 
ing, and was placed under Hudson, then esteemed the best artist of 
the day ; at the end of two years his proficiency was such as to excite 
the envy of his master, and they soon separated. Reynolds returned 
to Devonshire, where he pursued the practice of a portrait painter. 
It seems at this time that his talents attracted the attention of Lord 
Mount Edgecumbe, and Captain afterwards Lord Keppell, from whom, 
then on the Mediterranean station, he accepted an invitation to visit 
Italy, where he remained three years. On his return, he established 
himself in London, and it was not long before his performances were 
known and appreciated. In a full length portrait of his friend and 
patron, Keppell, he exhibited such powers that he was universally 
acknowledged to be at the head of his profession, and the greatest 
painter that England had seen since Vandyke. 

In 1768 the Royal Academy was founded, and Reynolds was nomi- 
nated President, the King conferring on him the honor of knighthood. 

In portraiture he was eminently successful ; instead of confining 
himself to mere likenesses, in which he was always happy, he dived, 
as it were, into the mind, habits, and manners of those who sat to him, 
and accordingly the majority of his portraits are so admirable and 
characteristic, that the many illustrious persons whom he has deli- 
neated will be almost as well known to posterity as if they had seen 
and conversed with them. 



GOODWOOD. 67 

Colouring was evidently his first excellence, to which all others were 
more or less sacrificed. In history, he does not appear to possess 
much fertility of invention ; as, whenever he has introduced a striking 
figure, it may commonly be traced and found to belong to some of his 
predecessors ; and, at the utmost, he can only be allowed the merit 
of skilful adaption: but in portrait, the variety of his attitudes and 
back-grounds is unequalled by any painter, ancient or modern, and 
that variety is generally accompanied with grace in the turn of his 
figures, and dignity in the airs of his heads. 



90. Portrait of William^ first Earl of Cadogan, 

Hyssing. 

(5/*. by4/f.6iw. 
In half armour, and rich uniform ; his helmet lies on a pedestal before 
him ; a baton in his right hand. 

William, Earl of Cadogan, was descended from an ancient 
family in Wales ; he entered the army and distinguished him- 
self at the Battle of the Boyne, and served in Marlborough's 
campaigns in Flanders with high credit. As a reward for his 
long and valuable services, he was elevated to the peerage by 
George I. His Lordship died 1726, leaving two daughters, 
the eldest of whom Lady Sarah married the second Duke of 
Richmond. 



91. Portrait of William Pitt, Gainsborough. 

(4/*. by $ ft. 6 in.) 
A fine and striking likeness; the attitude is easy and unconstrained ; his 
left arm rests on a table, and his right hand holds a letter; he is standing 
as if listening with deep attention ; it is a three-quarter portrait, and the 
dress is a blue coat, fastened across the breast, with ruffles at the wrist. 

William Pitt, second son of the Earl of Chatham, born 1759, 
died 1805, pursued a career not less memorable than his illus- 



68 GOODWOOD. 

trious father. In the 24th year of his age, he accepted from 
George III. the offices of First Lord of the Treasury and Chan- 
cellor of the Exchequer, which he retained for eighteen years. 
After the dissolution of Mr. Addington's brief administration, 
he again took his seat on the Treasury bench, which he occu- 
pied till his death. To do only common justice to the charac- 
ter of his high-minded and extraordinary man would necessarily 
occupy more space than would accord with the plan of this 
little work ; and the fact that every circumstance connected 
with his public life and policy is too deeply impressed on the 
minds of his countrymen to need repetition or eulogy here, 
seems to justify this brevity. 

Gainsborough (Thomas), who with Wilson and George Smith, was 
the founder of our School of Landscape Painting, was born in Suffolk, 
1727. In his very childhood he displayed the germ of that talent 
which perseverance finally matured. Although a fine painter of por- 
traits, as the present instance will abundantly prove, and with a repu- 
tation in that branch of his art which rivalled Sir J. Reynolds, yet 
Gainsborough's chief excellence lay in simple landscape- But few 
objects were required to complete his pictures : a cottager's child, a 
rising ground, a few sheep, or a simple group of trees, were sufficient; 
his charm was purity of tone in the colours, and freedom and clearness 
of touch. With ajudicious combination of fancy, and with these com- 
mon materials he never failed to produce a fascinating picture. Gains- 
borough was essentially an English painter, more so indeed than 
either Wilson or George Smith, who introduced Italian distances in 
nearly all their performances, and which style has secured to the for- 
mer the designation of the English Claude. He died in 1788, in the 
possession of high and just fame, and considerable wealth. 



92. Portrait of Charles, third Duke of Richmond, 

Sir J. Reynolds. 

(4 ft. 6 in. by d ft. Gin.) 



GOODWOOD. 69 

Taken when a youth, in the stiff" costume of the period, blue and red ; a 
pair of dogs are introduced, one of which he is caressing. It is a matter of 
surprise how the pencil even of Sir J. Reynolds could render a portrait in- 
teresting when its subject was attired in a dress so glaring and grotesque. 



93. Portrait of the Duke of Cumberland, A. Pond. 

(4/*. 6 in. by 4 ft.) 

The features, which are handsome, represent him to be about twenty-five 
years of age ; he is dressed in a handsome military uniform, and holds a 
baton in his left hand. It is a well executed picture. 

This nobleman was the second son of George II., and com- 
manded at Culloden when Prince Charles Edward, the Pre- 
tender, was defeated. 



Leaving the Waiting Room, we enter the 

Staircase Hall. 
The walls of which are painted a light drab color, and 
the ample window is decorated with a rich and full dra- 
pery ; the Staircase is of polished wainscot and leads to 
the principal apartments. 

On a solid marble sideboard, which also serves the 
purpose of a stove, stand antique heads in marble, a 
Bacchus, a Naiad, and one from the group of Laocoon, 
and in a niche a large marble bust of Adonis, after he 
had received his mortal wound from the Boar. Around 
are hung some of the choicest pictures of the collection, 
and it is matter of regret, that their large size precludes 



70 GOODWOOD. 

the possibility of placing them in more eligible situa- 
tions : this remark particularly applies to the magnifi- 
cent production of Vandyke, Charles I. and his family, 
unquestionably the chef-d'oeuvre of the Artist ; it is 
scarcely possible to appreciate its merits in the dark and 
high position which it now occupies. In the lower part 
of this area is Lawrence's noble picture of the present 
Duchess of Richmond. 

The first picture to which we shall recall the atten- 
tion of the Visitor is, 

94. A Portrait of Charles II. Sir P. Lely. 

(7 ft. 6 in. by 4 ft. 8 in.) 
The King is represented seated in a chair of state, in a dark blue robe, 
lined, with white ; around his neck he wears the Collar and George and the 
Garter on the knee, the dark hair falling over the shoulders ; the crown 
lies on a table to the right. 

95. Portrait of Caroline, present Duchess of Richmond, 

Sir Thomas Lawrence. 

(8 ft. by 5ft.) 

This splendid picture, painted in 1828-9, and exhibited at the 
Royal Academy in the latter year, is thus spoken of by Lawrence 
himself, in a letter to his sister: — "My labours have fortunately 
succeeded, and perhaps my two whole lengths of the Duchess of 
Richmond and the Marchioness of Salisbury, are the best that I 
have painted ; and the former the most popular and beautiful. I 
may rationally be proud of succeeding this year, since it is indis- 
putably the best exhibition u;e have had, and it is universally 
considered so." 

In the delineation of female beauty, Lawrence peculiarly excelled; 
and in this admirable production he has transferred to his canvass, 






GOODWOOD. 71 

with the richest harmony of coloring, not only the grace and elegance 
of his subject, but the animated expression of a refined intellect, and 
the calm dignity of domestic purity and moral excellence. The 
features are seen in a three-quarter view, and the clearness of the 
complexion is heightened by the dark hair, which is parted over the 
forehead, and disposed in careless and natural curls, and fastened 
at the bach of the head by a bandeau of brilliants. The expression 
of the eye is full of vivacity and intelligence, ivhile on the mouth, the 
ever guiding feature of the face, is a smile of surpassing sweetness ; 
a double necklace of pearls adorns the neck. The drapery is com- 
posed of white satin, most exquisitely finished, a portion of his work 
which, in his best pictures, Lawrence committed to no inferior 
hands ; the sameness of such a body of color is relieved, with the 
most happy effect, by the introduction of a deep blue ribbon, looped 
around the upper part of the dress, and fastened at the shoulder by 
a clasp of gems. In the left hand is placed a bouquet of flowers r 
and the right appears to be in the act of adjusting a bracelet on the 
left wrist. The attitude of the figure is singularly graceful and un- 
restrained. The folds of a rich red drapery immediately behind 
the upper portion of the portrait, contribute materially to heighten 
the delicacy and effect ; the back ground represents a glowing and 
highly colored landscape. 

The Duchess of Richmond is the eldest daughter of Henry 
William Paget, Marquis of Anglesey, born 6th of June, 1796, 
married 10th of April, 18 17, Charles Lennox, Earl of March, 
fifth and present Duke of Richmond, and has issue : — 1. Chailes, 
Earl of March and Darnley, born 27th Feb. 18 18—2. Lady 
Caroline- Amelia, born 18th June, 1819 — 3. Lord Fitzroy- 
George-Charles, born 1 1 th June, 1 820 — 4. Lord Henry-Charles- 
George, born 2nd Nov., 1821 — 5. Lady Sarah- Georgiana, born 
17th March, 1823, died 6th Jan., 1831—6. Lord Alexander- 
Francis-Charles, born 14th June, 1825 — 7. Lady Augusta- 
Catherine, born 14th Jan. 1827 — 8. Lady Lucy-Frances, born 
3rd June, 1828—9. Lord George, born 22nd Oct., 1829—10. 



72 GOODWOOD. 

Lady Amelia-Frederica, born 4th Dec. 1830 — ll._An infant, 
born April, 1838. 

Sir Thomas Lawrence, the most eminent of English painters, was 
born in the City of Bristol, 4th May, 1769. From his earliest child- 
hood he gave promise of extraordinary talent. At the age often years, 
he had acquired considerable celebrity, by the skill and faithfulness 
with which he executed portraits in crayons. " He took likenesses," 
says his biographer, " of the most eminent persons then at Oxford," 
the city where he made his essay ; " but his pencil was not confined 
to grave sexagenarians ; for many of the younger nobility and gentry 
were anxious to have their portraits taken by the phenomenon ; and 
the female beauty of this dignified city and its wealthy neighbourhood, 
equally pressed upon his talents." From Oxford, the youthful artist 
was taken by his father to Bath, where his success was also great. It 
was in this city that his true fame commenced, where at the age of 
seventeen he first dipped his brush in oil colours, and began to free 
himself from the captivating facilities of crayons. At the age of nine- 
teen, he came to London, and waited on Sir Joshua Reynolds, with a 
portrait of himself. The President was struck both with the picture 
and the artist, and " they parted mutually pleased with each other." 

Lawrence's fame was now rapidly extending, and at the age of 
twenty-two he was appointed painter in ordinary to the king, although 
Opie, Romney, and Hoppner, were then in high reputation. At this 
time he painted two whole lengths of George III. and his Queen, to 
be presented by Lord Macartney to the Emperor of China. 

In 1795, he was admitted a member of the Royal Academy, and 
honors flowed fast on him. Kings and princes were his patrons, and 
peers and peeresses his companions. Some of the portraits which he 
executed from this period to his thirtieth year, are among the finest 
efforts of genius ; that of John Kemble as Hamlet is a master-piece 
of painting. To the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, where the princes 
and rulers of the earth were assembled, after the Battle of Waterloo, 
to partition Europe among them, Lawrence was commissioned to 
proceed, by the Prince Regent, from whom he then received the ho- 
nor of knighthood, to execute portraits of the principal personages, 
for the gallery at Windsor. From Aix-la-Chapelle he went to Vienna, 
and from thence to Rome, and after an absence of eighteen months, 
returned to England in 1820, and was immediately elected President 






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of the Royal Academy, the venerable West having died during his 
absence. During the period which followed his elevation to the Pre- 
sident's chair to his death, the noble character of Lawrence shone 
most conspicuously ; his station now enabled him much more than 
before, to befriend youthful talent ; and his advice, his patronage, 
and his purse, were ever ready at its call. Although in possession of a 
large income, the latter years of his life were embittered by pecuniary 
embarrassments ; he was generous to a fault, and expended such 
sums of money on works of art,that at his death his collection of original 
drawings by the old masters was the finest and most extensive in 
Europe. He painted an immense number of portraits of the titled, 
the beautiful, and the great ; and among them all, it would be difficult 
to find one common-place picture. He died in London, Jan. 1830. 

96. Portrait of Charles II. when a youth, Vandyke. 

(4 ft. 6 in. by Bft. 3 in.) 

Seen in a three-quarter view, habited in a buff jacket, with open sleeves 

of red silk ; a rich lace frill covering the shoulders, and hose of bright red 

silk quilted ; a blue ribbon crosses the body. He holds a stick in his right 

hand and his hat on the other ; has gloves on, and a scarf round the left arm. 

97. Portrait of Cardinal Fleury. 

(5 ft. by* ft.) 
In a sitting position, the left hand reclines on the arm of the seat, and 
the right hand crossing the body also slightly holds it; he uears a scarlet 
Cardinal's robe. The countenance is mild and highly intellectual. 

Cardinal Fleury, a learned French priest, and celebrated ec- 
clesiastical historian, flourished in the seventeenth century. 
He died in 1723, in the eighty third year of his age, leaving 
behind him a character estimable for extensive learning, firm 
and nice integrity, true modesty and candour, great purity and 
simplicity of manners, and unaffected piety. 

98. St. Catharine, Guido. 

(3/f. 9 i». by lft. 11 in.) 
K 



74 GOODWOOD. 

A most beautiful picture ; the Saint is leaning on the wheel employed for 
her martyrdom, and her whole attention is fixed on the book which she holds 
in her hand. Guido's favorite blue drapery is pleasingly introduced, 

99. Portrait of " Jacques Marquis de Castlenau, Mares- 
chal de France, Lieutenant General des Armees du 
Roi, Gouverneur de Brest, nomme a 1' ordre de Saint 
Esprit." 

(4 ft. 6 in. by ift.) 

A three-quarter portrait in half armour, a baton in the right hand ; the 
head uncovered. The features are open and handsome, and display an air 
of strong determination. 



100. Portrait of the Countess of Berkeley, daughter of 
the first Duke of Richmond. 

(I ft. Sin. by Ift. 4 in.) 



101. Portrait of James, Duke of Monmouth, 

Sir Godfrey Kneller. 

(4 ft. by 3 ft. 2 in.) 
A very fine specimen of Kneller' s talents, and very superior to his usual 
loose style of painting. He appears to have bestowed more than ordinary 
pains on this portrait ; it represents the Duke when a young man, in a light 
hunting dress ; his right hand holds a whip, and he wears large white 
gloves; the head is uncovered and the full flouing hair falls over his 
shoulders ; the features, which are singularly handsome, are seen in a front 
view ; a three-quarter length. 



102. Portraits of Prince Charles, Princess Mary, and 
James Duke of York, — children of Charles I. 

Vandyke, 

(4/f. 10 m. by 4/*. Bin.) 






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The Prince, apparently about nine years of age, stands on the left, dressed 
in a red silk jacket and hose, and a broad lace frill; he leans his left arm on 
the base of a column, arid holds his brother's right hand; the latter is dressed 
in petticoats, and wears a lace cap. His attention is turned to his sister, 
who stands on his right in nearly a front position, ivith her hands crossed 
on her waist. Two favorite spaniels are seated at their feet. 



103. Portrait of Frances Theresa, Duchess of Richmond, 

Sir P. Lely. 

(8 ft. by 4 ft. Gin.) 
One of Lely' s finest pictures ; arrayed as Minerva, with a helmet, sur- 
mounted by a large plume of feathers ; the left arm leans on a pedestal, and 
the hand holds a spear ; she wears a loose flowing dress, looped at the elbow 
by a circlet of brilliants, and a robe fastened on the right shoulder by an 
ornament, and falling in rich folds over the left arm and leg ; a light cuirass 
covers the bosom. The features are seen in a three-quarter view, and the 
hair falls in curls beneath the helmet. 

Frances Theresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond, the eldest 
daughter of Lord Blantyre, a peer of Scotland, was one of the 
most celebrated beauties of the Court of Charles II. Of the 
mode of her introduction at Court, we have no account ; but 
she became there at once a Maid of Honour to Catharine of 
Braganza, and the intimate of Lady Castlemain, afterwards 
Duchess of Cleveland, the favorite mistress of Charles, stations 
which, the liberality of the times rendered compatible with each 
other. Among all the temptations to which she was incessantly 
exposed in this licentious Court, she preserved an unblemished 
reputation. The King himself was deeply enamoured of her, 
and offered to create her a Duchess, and settle on her in fee an 
ample estate for the support of that dignity, but she repelled 
his attacks on her honor with unvarying firmness ; and at length 
to avoid the unceasing vexation which his addresses entailed 
on her, the high-spirited young lady left Whitehall privately, 



76 GOODWOOD. 

and without the usual ceremony of asking permission either of 
the King or Queen, married the Duke of Richmond, 1667. To 
the partiality which Charles entertained for this accomplished 
lady, we owe the representation of " Britannia" on the coin of 
the realm : a gold medal was first struck, representing on the 
front the bust of the King, and on the reverse, a portrait of 
Miss Stuart, in the character of Minerva ; it was shortly after- 
wards transferred to the copper coin of the realm, on which it 
appears to this day, unaltered in its general appearance as the 
emblematic figure, and bearing the inscription of " Britannia." 
She died in 1702. 

In the Gallery above are four whole length portraits 
by Sir P. Lely, of the "Beauties" who adorned the Court 
of Charles II. It has been thought scarcely necessary 
to add a separate notice to each individual picture, so 
similar are they in all their accessories; the dress is 
low, loose, and flowing ; he caught the reigning charac- 
ter, and 

"«. On animated canvass, stole 

The sleepy eye, and that spoke the melting soul/' 

They comprise the two next pictures, andNos. 108, 109. 

104. Portrait, whole length, Frances Theresa, Duchess of 
Richmond, Sir P. Lely. 

(8/*. by 4 ft. 8 in.) 

105. Portrait of Nell Gwyn, Sir P. Lely. 

(8 ft. by 4 ft. 8 in.) 



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106. Portrait of the Compte de Querouaille, father of 
the Duchess of Portsmouth. 

- (3/*. by 2 ft. 6 in.) 



107. A Merry-making, P. Vansomer. 

(2 ft 8 in. by 2 ft. 2 in.) 
Three figures dancing ; one of them playing on the violin ; through an 
open window are three other countenances, apparently enjoying the jovial 



108. Portrait of Mrs. Middleton, Sir P. Lely. 

(8 ft. by 4 ft. 8 in.) 

109. Portrait of theDuchess of Portsmouth, Sir P. Lely. 

(8/f. by 4/*. 8 in.) 



110. Portrait of Charles II., Sir P. Lely. 

(3/f. 6 in. by 2 ft. 10 in.) 
The King is seated on a throne, attended by the Yeomen of the Guard ; in 
the back ground the Queen and her attendants are seen approaching. The 
style of this picture is stiff, and the coloring by no means harmonious. 



111. Portrait of the second Duke of Richmond. 

(2 ft. 4 in. by 2ft.) 

112. Portraits of King Charles L, his Queen Henrietta 



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Maria, and their two sons, Prince Charles and James 
Duke of York, Vandyke. 

(About 10 ft. by 8 ft.) 
The King, attired in his royal robes, is seen in a front view, 
seated in an arm chair ; his right hand placed on a covered table, 
on which are the regalia of England ; his left rests on the arm of 
the chair. The Queen is also seated richly attired in a dark yellow 
dress. The young Prince stands by the King with both hands 
placed on his knee, and the Queen is holding the infant James in 
her arms ; between the columns of the vestibule, in which they are 
represented, the tower of London is seen at a distance. This mag- 
nificent picture was in the possession of Charles I., and valued at 
£150 ; on the sale of his effects it was taken to France, and placed 
in the Orleans collection ; after the execution of the Duke of Or- 
leans (Egalite), it was pur chased by Mr. Hammersley, the Banker, 
by whom, in 1804, it was sold to the third Duke of Richmond for 
£1100. Vandyke painted three copies: the one in question, one in 
the possession of the Crown, and a third belonging to the Duke of 
Devonshire ; a sketch in chalk, the first idea of this group, was in 
the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence. 



113. Portrait of the Duchess of Portsmouth. 

(3 ft. 3 in. by 2 ft. 6 in.) 
A three-quarter length, in the act of displaying some jewels, tvhich she 
holds in her hands ; she wears a pearl necklace. 



114. Portrait of the Comptesse de Querouaille, mother 
of the Duchess of Portsmouth. 
(d ft. by 2 ft. Q in.) 



115. Portrait of Henrietta Maria, Duchess of Orleans. 

(7 ft. 3 in. by 5 ft.) 






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A very showily painted picture ; the Duchess is represented as " Diana," 
holding a bow in her right hand, and a quiver of arrows lies at her feet ; a 
deep blue scarf ha?igs over the right shoulder ; cupids, in the upper part of 
the picture, are supporting drapery ; a landscape forms the back ground. 

Henrietta Maria was daughter of Charles I., and wife of 
Philip, Duke of Orleans. This picture was painted when the 
Princess was on a visit to her brother, Charles II., at Dover, in 
1670. She died suddenly, not without suspicion of poison, on 
her return to France, the 30th of June, in the same year. 



116. Portrait of the first Duke of Richmond, 

Sir G. Kneller. 
(4: ft. by 3/*. 2 in.) 
A three-quarter figure, in a full red dress of the fashion of the period ; 
the arm and hand are extended, and the countenance elevated as if in the 
act of speaking. 

Leaving this area, we enter a handsome suite of Rooms, 
which formed (excepting the towers at either end,) the 
original mansion, and are now used as the private apart- 
ments of the noble owner and his family. They com- 
prise two Libraries, a Bourdoir, and two Studies, opening 
en suite, and are remarkable not more for their taste and 
elegance, than for the air of real comfort which pervades 
them. 

The Bourdoir 
Is a circular apartment ; the walls are hung with a light 
blue paper, edged with a small gilt moulding. Two 
compartments corresponding with the windows, are fit- 



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ted up with plate glass, beneath which are marble console 
tables covered with ornaments of rare and valuable china : 
a Dresden time-piece of beautiful design and workman- 
ship is well worthy of notice. On the right as we enter 
is a cabinet of the choicest agates, highly polished, and 
set in ebony and gold, formerly belonging to the Duchess 
of Portsmouth. Over the fire-place is 

117. A Portrait of Henry, Earl of Uxbridge, in the uni- 
form of the Horse Guards. 

(2 ft. by lft. 4 in.) 
This nobleman is the eldest son of the Marquis of Anglesey, 
and brother of the Duchess of Richmond, born July 1797 5 sum- 
moned to the House of Peers in 1832 by the title of Baron 
Paget of Beaudesert. His Lordship is a Lieutenant-Colonel in 
the Army. 

118. Cabinet Portrait of the Marquis of Anglesey, 

(lft. 1 in. by 10 in.) 

119. Cabinet Portrait of the present Duke of Richmond. 

(lft. 1 in. by 10 in.) 
A highly -finished engraving- has been executed from this picture. 

Around are disposed the following fine Prints and 
Drawings : — 

— An exquisitely finished copy from Vandyke's picture 
of King Charles and his Family, on ivory. 



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— A spirited Sketch of Lady Georgina Paget, by Hayter. 

— A Sketch of Lord George and Lady Amelia Len- 

nox, the youngest children of the present Duke of 
Richmond. 
Engraved Portraits of the first, second, third, and 
fourth Dukes of Richmond. 

— Of George III. and Queen Charlotte 

— Of King George IV. 

— Of Frederick, Duke of York. 

— Of Napoleon, on horseback. 
~ Of King Charles I. 

The Small Library 
Is filled with a valuable and well selected collection of 
Books, especially rich in volumes of prints, illustrated 
works, and foreign literature. They are arranged on 
open wainscot shelves ; access to the upper part is af- 
forded by means of a small wainscot staircase, leading 
up to a light iron gallery, around the entire room, sup- 
ported by cantalivers of the same metal bronzed, with a 
top-rail of mahogany; an elegant and ingenious con- 
trivance, designed by and erected under the direction of 
the third Duke. 

Over the Book-cases are two Plaster Casts of the third 
Duke, by the Hon. Mrs. Darner; and in a recess at the 
lower end of the room are 
A fine Head of Charles II. in enamel, by Cooper, 



82 GOODWOOD. 

And the following Miniatures, in separate frames, and 

glazed : — 

The present Duchess of Richmond. 

The late Duchess of Argyle. 

The fourth Duke and Duchess of Richmond. 

The Duke of Wellington. 

The Marquis of Cornwallis. 

Lady Westmoreland. 

Lady Crofton. 

Lady Sarah Maitland. 

Lady Georgiana de Rous. 

Lord and Lady George Lennox. 

The fifth Earl of Jersey. 

Ninon de L'Enclos. 

In carved ivory, the first Duke of Richmond, and his 
daughter, the Countess of Berkeley. 

In one frame, Thirteen Miniatures, principally of the 
Lennox family ; and in another, Enigmatical Draw- 
ings, representing the Seasons. 
Over the Gallery, at the same end of the apartment, 

are four Family Portraits : 



120. Portrait of the third Duke of Richmond, Romney. 

(2 ft. 4 in. by 2 ft.) 
A well-known picture, many engravings having been taken from it ; he 
is represented seated under a tree reading ; the countenance is seen in 
profile. 






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George Romney, an eminent English painter, was born in Lan- 
cashire, 1734. Very many of this artist's best productions are to be 
found in Sussex, and particularly in the neighbourhood of Chichester, 
he being a frequent visitor at Earthem, then the residence of Hayley, 
who, after Romney's death, published a memoir of his distinguished 
friend. A painting room was set apart at this beautiful retreat for 
the artist's use, and the box of oil colours and palattes used there by 
him are now in the possession of the compiler of these pages. Rom- 
ney's style of coloring was simple and broad ; in that of his flesh he 
was very successful, exhibiting a great variety of complexion with 
much warmth and richness. With Sir J. Reynolds and Gainsborough, 
he shared a liberal portion of public favor. He painted an immense 
number of portraits, but has also left behind him some splendid histo- 
rical pictures ; of these one of the best, the infant Shakespeare at- 
tended by Comedy and Tragedy, is in the collection at Petworth. It 
has been finely engraved by Caroline Watson ; and Hayley, under the 
first proof impression from the plate, in which was a medallion head 
of Romney afterwards erased, wrote the following beautiful and ap- 
propriate lines : — 

" When Romney, in his happiest hour, designed 
The Muses fostering young Shakespear's mind, 
Nature survey' d them all with fond regard, 
And owrtd the Painter worthy of the Bard." 

This print is also in the same possession as Romney's box and pa- 
lettes. He died 1802. 



121. Portrait of the Marquis of Anglesey (in crayons), 

Sir W. Beechey, 

(2 ft. 10 in. by 2 ft. tin.) 
Henry-William Paget, Marquis of Anglesey, eldest son of 
Henry, third Earl of Uxbridge, was born 17th May, 1/68, and 
succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1812. He 
early entered the army, and was engaged in active service 
during the first campaigns of the Duke of York, in Flanders. 
Throughout the Peninsular War, his Lordship commanded the 



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cavalry 5 and in covering the disastrous retreat of Sir John 
Moore, executed his arduous duty with the utmost skill and 
courage. In the famous campaign of 1815, he once more took 
the field at the head of the cavalry 5 and during the memorable 
day of the 18th of June, by the daring manner in which he led 
on the charges of horse, contributed materially to the successful 
termination of the conflict. " During the whole of the engage- 
ment," says the historian Gifford, " his exertions were great 
and unremitting, while his example was most animating. Scarce 
a squadron charged, but he was at their head ; and wherever 
the cavalry could be of service, there he led them. Though ex- 
posed to the hottest of the fire, he had escaped unhurt ; but 
almost the last shot which the enemy fired shattered his right 
knee and deprived him of a leg." On his return to England, 
his Lordship was created Marquis of Anglesey, and received 
the orders of the Bath and Garter. He held the office of Mas- 
ter General of the Ordnance during Canning's Administration, 
and has been twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 



122. Portrait of Charles, fourth Duke of Richmond, 

Jackson. 

(2 ft. 4 in. by 2ft.) 
Charles, fourth Duke of Richmond, son of Lord George 
Henry Lennox, was born 1764, and succeeded, by the death of 
his uncle the third Duke, to the title and estates in 1806. He 
chose the military profession, and obtained a commission in 
the Coldstream Guards, soon after commanded by the Duke of 
York ; a company with the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel was in 
due time attained. In 1795, he became Colonel 5 in 1803 he 
was nominated to the command of the 35th Regiment ; and in 
1814, after passing through the intermediate gradations of 
Major-General, and Lieut. -General, he obtained that of full 
General, with the Colonelcy of the 35 th Regiment of Foot. 






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While in the Guards, a misunderstanding unhappily took 
place between the Duke of York and his Grace, (then Colonel 
Lennox,) which terminated in a duel. Colonel Mackinnon, in 
his history of the Coldstream Guards, thus alludes to the affair : 

" The dispute originated in an observation made by his Royal 
Highness, that Colonel Lennox had been addressed by an indi- 
vidual at the club at Daubigney's in a manner that no gentleman 
ought to permit. The observation being reported to Colonel 
Lennox, he took the opportunity on parade to inquire of his 
Royal Highness what were the words which he had submitted 
to hear, and by whom they were spoken : to this his Royal 
Highness gave no other answer than by ordering the Colonel 
to his post. The parade being over, his Royal Highness went 
into the orderly-room and sent for Colonel Lennox, when he 
intimated to him, in the presence of the officers of the Cold- 
stream, that he desired to derive no protection either from his 
rank as a Prince, or his situation as Commanding-officer ; and 
that when off duty he wore a brown coat, and was ready as a 
private individual to give Colonel Lennox the satisfaction re- 
quired by one gentleman from another. After this declaration, 
Colonel Lennox wrote a circular to every member of Daubigney's 
Club, requesting them to inform him whether the words, as 
stated, had been addressed to him, and desiring an answer from 
each member by the following morning ; adding, that he should 
consider their silence on the subject as an acknowledgment that 
no such words could be recollected. After the time named for 
an answer to his circular letter, Colonel Lennox sent a written 
message to the following purport : — ' That not being able to 
recollect any occasion on which words were used towards him 
at Daubigney's, that ought not to be addressed to a gentleman 
he had taken the step which appeared most likely to gain infor- 
mation on the subject to which his Royal Highness had made 
allusion, and of the party by whom they had been used : — that 



86 GOODWOOD. 

none of the members of the club had afforded him any information, 
and consequently, that no such insult had been offered him to 
their knowledge ; and therefore he expected, in justice to his 
character, that his Royal Highness would contradict the report 
as publicly as it had been asserted by his Royal Highness.' 
This letter was delivered to the Duke of York the same day by 
the Earl of Winchelsea. His Royal Highness's answer not 
proving satisfactory, a message was sent by Colonel Lennox to 
appoint a meeting ; the time and place were then settled. 

" The following is the account given by the seconds of the 
affair. In consequence of this misunderstanding, his Royal 
Highness the Duke of York, attended by Lord Rawdon, and 
Lieutenant-Colonel Lennox, accompanied by the Earl of Win- 
chelsea, met at Wimbledon Common. The ground was mea- 
sursed twelve paces, and both parties were to fire together. 
Lieutenant- Colonel Lennox's ball grazed his Royal Highness's 
curl, but the Duke of York did not fire. Lord Rawdon then 
interfered, and said ' he thought enough had been done j' when 
Colonel Lennox observed, ' that his Royal Highness had not 
fired :' Lord Rawdon replied, 'it was not the intention of the 
Duke to fire ; his Royal Highness entertained no animosity 
against Lieut.- Colonel Lennox, and had only come out on his 
invitation to give him satisfaction.' Colonel Lennox wished the 
Duke to fire, which was declined, with a repetition of the rea- 
son. Lord Winchelsea then expressed a hope that his Royal 
Highness would not object to say he considered Colonel Lennox 
a man of courage and honour. His Royal Highness replied, 
that he should say no such thing : he had come out with 
the intention of giving Colonel Lennox the satisfaction he 
demanded, but did not mean to fire at him 3 if Colonel Lennox 
was not satisfied, he might have another shot. Colonel Lennox 
declared that he could not possibly fire again, as his Royal High- 
ness did not mean to return it. The seconds signed a paper 



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stating that ' both parties behaved with the most perfect cool- 
ness and intrepidity.' 

" Lieutenant-Colonel Lennox called a meeting of the officers 
of the Coldstream, to deliberate and give their opinion whether 
in the late dispute he behaved as became an officer and a gen- 
tleman. After much discussion, they came to the following 
resolution : ' It is the opinion of the Coldstream regiment, that 
subsequently to the fifteenth of May, the day of the meeting at 
the orderly-room, Lieutenant- Colonel Lennox has behaved with 
courage ; but, from the peculiar difficulty of his situation, not 
with judgment.' 

" The unusual, if not unprecedented, occurrence of a Prince 
of the Blood, and one so near the throne, voluntarily placing his 
life in such imminent peril, created at the time a strong 
sensation." 

As a pleasing close to our relation of this affair, we may state 
that in the autumn of 1 825, the Duke of York visited the present 
Duke of Richmond at Goodwood, and partook, in company with 
a distinguished party of the nobility, of the splendid hospitality 
which especially characterizes this Mansion during the period 
of the Races. 

In 1780, Colonel Lennox was returned for the County of 
Sussex, which he represented for seven successive Parliaments. 
His politics, like those of his uncle, were favorable to Mr. Pitt's 
Administration, and that Minister accordingly received his 
invariable support. In 1808, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant 
of Ireland, which honorable and responsible situation he held 
for upwards of six years. After his re-call, he retired to Brus- 
sels, with his family ; and while there, frequently entertained 
the Duke of Wellington and his suite. It was at a Ball given 
by the Duchess of Richmond in June, 18 15, that the intelli- 
gence of Napoleon's near approach was communicated to the 
Duke of Wellington. " Both the Duke of Richmond and his 



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son Lord March/' says his Biographer in the Annual Obituary, 
" were present at the Battle of Waterloo ; and the subject of 
this memoir accompanied his old friend through all the dangers 
of that day, even into the very squares of infantry, while under 
the fire of the enemy." 

Soon after this event, the Duke of Richmond was gratified 
with the appointment of Governor-general of the British settle- 
ments of North America. On this occasion, part of his family 
accompanied him ; and his son-in-law, Sir Charles Maitland, 
was, at the same time, nominated Lieutenant-governor of Upper 
Canada. 

His Grace, however, enjoyed his honors but for a brief 
period ; he died in Canada, August 28, 1 819. 

The Duke of Richmond married in 1783, Lady Charlotte, 
eldest daughter of Alexander, Duke of Gordon, who now sur- 
vives him, and by whom he left issue: — 1. Mary, born August 
15, 1790 — 2. Charles, present and fifth Duke — 3. Lady Sarah, 
born August 22, 1792 — 4. Lord George John, born October 
3, 1793—5. Lady Georgiana, born May 30, 1795—6. Lord 
Henry- Adam, born September 6, 1797, fell overboard the 
Blake, as she was sailing into Port Mahon, February 25, 1812, 
and was drowned — 7. Lady Jane, born September 5, 1798 — 
8. Lord William-Pitt, born September 20, 1799—9. Lord 
Frederick, born January 24, 1801, died in Chichester, October 
19, 1829—10. Lord Sussex, born July 11, 1802—11. Lady 
Louisa- Madeline, born Oct. 2, 1803 — 12. Lady Charlotte, 
born December 4, 1 804 — 13. Lord Arthur, born Oct. 2, 1 806 — 
14. Lady Sophia Georgiana, born July 21, 1809. 



123. Portrait of Charles, present and fifth Duke of Rich- 
mond, in crayons. 

(2 ft. 8 in. by 2 ft. 2 in.) 



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The Duke of Richmond was born on the 3rd of August, 
1/91, and succeeded to the title and estates by the death of 
his father, the fourth Duke, August, 1819. His Grace entered 
the military profession, and on the 8th of June, 1809, was ap- 
pointed ensign in the 8th garrison battalion; on the 2 1st of June, 
1810, lieutenant in the 13th light dragoons; on the 9th of 
July, 1812, captain of the 92nd Gordon highlanders ; on the 8th 
of April, 1813, captain of the 52nd light infantry ; on the 15th 
of June, 1815, brevet-major; and lieutenant-colonel on the 25th 
July, 1816. In 1809, his Grace was appointed aid-de-camp to 
the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and on the 24th July, 1810, 
joined the army in the Peniusula as aid-de-camp to the Duke of 
Wellington, with whom his Grace remained till 1ft 14, and was 
present at all the general actions and affairs which took place 
during that period. He was sent home with the duplicate 
despatches of the battle of Salamanca, the capture of Astorga, 
and the entrance into France. In January, 1814, he left the 
Duke of Wellington's staff to join the first battalion of the 52nd 
light infantry, and was severely wounded at the battle of Orthes, 
February 27, in the command of a company, by a musket ball, 
which has never been extracted. At the end of 1814 he was 
appointed aid-de-camp to the Prince of Orange, and was with 
him in the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo ; after the 
Prince of Orange was wounded, the Duke of Richmond joined 
the Duke of Wellington as extra aid-de-camp, and remained with 
him till the peace; he then joined the 2nd battalion of the 52nd 
light infantry, and at its reduction in 1816 was placed on half- 
pay, and has since retired from the army. His Grace is 
Colonel of the Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia, and Vice- 
Admiral of the County of Sussex. 

In 1812, his Grace was returned to Parliament for the City 
of Chichester, which he represented till 1819, when he took his 
seat in the House of Lords. In 1830, on the dissolution of the 

M 



90 GOODWOOD. 

Duke of Wellington's ministry, his Grace accepted the office of 
Post-master General, with a seat in the Cabinet, in Earl Grey's 
administration, and which he retained till June, 1834. During 
the period which his Grace filled this situation, his unremitting 
attention and activity were conspicuous in his endeavours to 
promote an efficient reform in this department of the public 
service, and especially an increase in the facilities of commu- 
nication with France. On the 4th of June, 1834, his Grace 
and three of his colleagues tendered their resignations, a divi- 
sion of opinion having taken place in the cabinet on one of the 
clauses of the Irish Church Bill, viz. that which involved the 
principle of confiscating the property of the Church, or part of 
its property, to other than Protestant ecclesiastical purposes 5 
to this, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Ripon, Sir James 
Graham, and Mr. Stanley, were opposed, and consequently 
seceded from the Cabinet. 

In May, 1829, the Duke of Richmond was chosen a Knight 
of the Garter. Upon his resignation of the office of Postmaster 
General in 1834, his Majesty appointed him to be one of his 
aids-de-camp for the militia, and in 1835 he was honored by the 
appointment of Lord- Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the 
county of Sussex, on the resignation of the Earl of Egremont. 
On the 10th of April, 1817, his Grace married Lady Caroline 
Paget, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Anglesey. 



The Large Library 
Is a fine well-proportioned room, 35 feet long and 25 
feet wide, having a bold handsome cornice, elegantly 
painted and gilded, and the ceiling formed into compart- 
ments, which are filled with paintings by Riley, the 
subjects being taken from those discovered in the baths 



w. 



GOODWOOD. 91 

of Titus at Rome. A superb bronze and gilt lamp is 
suspended from the centre of the ceiling. The walls 
are painted salmon colour, and are ornamented with gold 
medallions and foliage in bass-relief; the drapery to the 
windows and furniture is composed of the richest silk 
tabiret of the same colour, with an elegant light blue 
silk fringe to correspond. Against the piers between 
the windows stand two looking glasses, 9 feet high by 5 
feet wide, and before them are tables of polished granite; 
beneath which, are a pair of Thebaick vases. These 
once formed part of the plunder of the French army in 
Egypt, and were taken out of a French frigate. On the 
opposite side is the fire-place with its elegant chimney 
piece of statuary marble, costly pieces of Sevre and other 
porcelain, with various articles of bijouterie are placed 
on this and on the granite tables. 

The Library consists of about 9,000 volumes, and the 
books are arranged in lofty cases occupying the sides of 
the room. These cases are enclosed in front by doors 
filled in rich light brass wire work, and the panels of the 
closet doors in the dado beneath them are painted in 
chiaro scuro, the subjects being taken from the drawings 
of Sir William Hamilton's Greek, Etruscan, and Roman 
Vases, found in the ruins of Herculaneum. These paint- 
ings, as well as the death of Cleopatra in the panel over 
the chimney piece, and those of Bacchus and Ariadne, 






92 GOODWOOD. 

over the doors on each side of it, were all done by the 
same artist who painted the ceiling. 

On either side of the fire-place are the following 
Miniatures : — 

Charles, fourth Duke of Richmond, Scott. 

Caroline, present Duchess of Richmond. 

Charles, present and fifth Duke of Richmond, in the 

uniform of the 52nd Light Infantry. 
Lord John George Lennox, in the uniform of the ninth 

Lancers. 

This nobleman is the second son of the late Duke of Rich- 
mond, born October 3, 1793, married June 29, 1818, Louisa- 
Frederica, fourth daughter of the Hon. John Rodney. His 
Lordship represented Chichester for many years, and in 1831, 
on the death of Walter Burrell, Esq., was returned for Sussex, 
and has since continued to represent the Western Division. 
His Lordship has seen much service in the army, having served 
in the Peninsula campaigns and at Waterloo. 

By a private door, the front of which is fitted up in 
imitation of the backs of books, to correspond with the 
surrounding cases, we enter 

The Study, 

A small apartment, appropriated by his Grace to magis- 
terial and other business purposes. A handsome wall- 
nut tree cabinet, within a recess, contains a collection of 






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guns, rifles, and pistols, with ample accoutrements; over 
the fire-place is a faithful painting of the famous horse 

124. " Moses/' purchased by the Duke of Richmond 
from the stud of the late Duke of York, Ward. 

(4/f. by 3/f. 3 m.) 

125. A water-coloured Drawing of Molecomb, a Villa in 
Goodwood Park, De Wint. 

(2 ft. 6 in. by lft. 6 in.) 

126. A Horse Fair, Howitt. 

(2 ft. Z in. by I ft. 7 in.) 

127. " Gulnare," the winner of the Epsom Oaks, value 
2,300 guineas, in 1827? bred by the Duke of Rich- 
mond. Portraits of his Grace's Trainer, Mr. Kent, 
and the Rider, Frank Boyce, are introduced. 

{4: ft. by %ft. 4 in.) 

128. " Buraco,'' the horse which carried the present 
Duke of Richmond in the Peninsula Campaigns, 
from 1810 to 1814. The town of Vittoria is seen 
in the distance. 

(2 /MO in. by 2 ft. 2 in.) 

129. Portrait of the Earl of March, eldest son of the 
present Duke, with his Poney. 

(2 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. I in.) 



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Adjoining is the West Tower, also appropriated to his 
Grace's use, and filled with various Parliamentary papers, 
and public documents. The walls are adorned with a 
choice collection of modern Engravings, principally of 
eminent Personages and Statesmen of the present day : 

Queen Victoria. 
. William IV. 
Duke of Wellington. 
Lord Brougham. 
Marquis of Lansdowne. 
Lord Glenelg. 
Earl Grey. 
Earl of Egremont. 
The third Duke of Richmond. 
Lord Holland. 
Earl Spencer. 
Lord Goderich. 
Duke of Gordon. 
Right Hon. W. Huskisson. 
Marquis of Anglesey. 
Hon. E. G. Stanley. 

Charles I., the face in three points of view. 
Lord George Lennox. 
Sketch of Ladies Constance, Eleanor, and Lord W. 
Paget. 



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Two very spirited Sketches of Captain the Hon. Geo. 
Byng, and the Marquis of Conyngham, 

A. D'Orsay. 

Small Portrait of Charles II. 

% 

Retracing our steps and again crossing the Vestibule, 

we enter the 

Billiard Room, 

Containing an excellent table and appendages for that 
game ; the windows, reaching to the ground, open to the 
gardens. In one corner of the apartment, on a scagliola 
pedestal, is a fine bust in plaster of the Earl of Strad- 
broke. The walls are hung with numerous fine pictures ; 
one of which, known as the "Darnley picture," over the 
fire-place, is a rare and curious specimen of art. It was 
discovered some years ago in the Castle of Aubigny, in 
France, and though at the time in a dilapidated state, 
yet by comparison with a similar copy in the possession 
of the Earl of Pomfret, both pictures were enabled to be 
perfected. Vertue has drawn up some long observations 
on it, in which he has described every figure and inscrip- 
tion, the latter being very numerous, with singular 
accuracy and minuteness. It has not been deemed 
requisite to append his criticism, contained in a closely 
printed pamphlet, entire, but to extract and compress 
such portions as appear to possess the greatest degree of 
interest and information. 



96 GOODWOOD. 

130. Portrait of Lord Anson, Romney. 

(Aft. Gin. by 3/£. 4 in.) 
A three-quarter portrait in an Admiral's full dress ; the features are 
seen in a front view, and he holds a baton in his right hand ; a view of the 
ocean forms the distance. 

Commodore George Anson, in September, ] 740, sailed from 
England with a small squadron of ships, consisting of the Cen- 
turion of 60 guns ; the Gloucester, the Severn, the Pearl, the 
Wager, and the Trial sloop ; with two Victuallers, and about 
470 land forces, under the command of Colonel Cracherode. 
The Severn and the Pearl were separated from him on the 
Coast of Brazil, whence they returned to England. All his 
other ships, except the Centurion, were either lost or destroyed, 
for want of hands to navigate them. He burned the town of 
Paita in Peru, where he found a good deal of plunder. He like- 
wise took the rich Manila galloon, valued at £400,000 sterling. 
And after undergoing an incredible number of difficulties, he 
arrived at Spithead on the 15th of June, 1744. His treasure 
was conveyed in a triumphant manner to London, where it was 
received amidst the shouts and acclamations of the people. He 
himself was soon after created a Peer of the Realm. He died 
in 1762, aged 62. 

In the stable-yard of the inn at Waterbeach, adjoining the 
Park, the figure-head of the Centurion, a lion carved in wood, 
was preserved for many years. On the accession of his late 
Majesty, it was removed to Windsor -, the stone pedestal on 
which it rested, bore the following lines : — 
" Stay Traveller awhile and view, 

One who has travelled more than you ; 

Quite round the Globe thro' each degree 

Anson and I have ploughed the sea, 

Torrid and Frigid Zones have past, 

And safe ashore arrived at last : 

In ease ivith dignity appear, 

He in the House of Lords, I here." 



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131. Landscape, George Smith. 

(6 ft. 4 in. by Aft. 6 in.) 
For this beautiful picture, " The Society for the Encouragement of 
Arts, fyc." awarded the artist the prize for the best landscape. The com- 
position is singularly full and the coloring warm and harmonious ; a fine 
group of trees, beneath which various figures are introduced, forms the 
most prominent object in the fore ground ; the intermediate scenery is well 
managed, and softens into a rich claude-like distance ; the sky is clear and 
transparent, and the clouds are light and airy. 

George Smith was the second of three brothers, natives of Chi- 
chester, sons of a dissenting minister, and all remarkable, though in 
different degrees, for genius in painting. The subject of this notice 
was born in 1713 ; his superior talents were developed before he had 
attained to the age of fourteen years, when his elder brother took him 
to London, to initiate him in the principles of the art. It does not 
appear, that the education he had previously received, was in any 
respect more extensive than that usually given to children in his hum- 
ble rank of life. During many years after he had engaged in the pro- 
fession of a painter, he was often under the necessity of applying to 
portrait painting for a maintenance ; but his genius for landscape was 
aided by unremitted industry, and an accurate observation of nature 
in her minutest forms. His leisure was solely dedicated to rural ex- 
cursions, in which he transferred innumerable scenes to his portfolio, 
which he afterwards composed into pictures. He was in the habit, 
for the sake of facilitating this plan, of using a camera obscura; to 
which circumstance may be attributed a certain stiffness of manner, 
which pervades his best works. The leisure (continues his biogra- 
pher) which this want of public encouragement occasioned, he devoted 
to the instruction of his younger brother, John Smith, who afterwards 
attained, in landscape painting, an eminence little inferior to his own t 
At length, returning to Chichester, to visit his friends, he was noticed 
by the patron of his elder brother, the Duke of Richmond, and was 
employed by him to paint landscapes. In this he succeeded so hap- 
pily, that that noble person earnestly recommended it to him to con- 
fine his attention entirely to his favorite study. This judicious and 
friendly counsel had its due weight on our young artist's mind. Con- 
fined by the res angusta domi, he had neither access to the works of 
great masters, which he might study as models, nor opportunity of 

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98 GOODWOOD. 

travelling into distant countries to enlarge and diversify his ideas of 
general nature ; but he did what he could to compensate for these 
disadvantages and privations. He collected, and with great diligence 
studied, many books on the subject of his art ; but chiefly, and above 
all, he studied with unremitting attention the. book of nature. A great 
portion of their time was spent by himself and his brother Johnr 
abroad, in the fields, in the woods, or on the hills, where, by means 
of a camera obscura, they contracted the surrounding scenery into a 
landscape ; the strength, sweetness, and finishing of which, no pencil 
could equal. It was their object to approach as nearly as possible to 
the perfect representation of nature ; and to this method of study, 
perhaps may justly be ascribed, not only the eminent and charac- 
teristic perfections, but also the slight defects of their style of painting. 

Upon the establishment of the " Society for the Encouragement of 
Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce," in 1760, the prizes for the best 
landscapes exhibited, were adjudged, the first to George, and the 
second to John Smith. In 1761, they were equally successful. In 
1762, John alone was a candidate, as was George in 1763 ; and to 
each the first premium was given. In the last-mentioned exhibition, 
the competitor of George Smith was Wilson, who lived to be the most 
eminent of the English school of landscape. But Wilson's excellence 
was Smith's deficiency — a beautiful aerial tint, which was acquired by 
studying the pictures of Claude Lorraine, in Italy, instead of prints 
from them, in England. Wilson became familiar with effects, during 
his tour on the Continent, to which Smith was necessarily a stranger ; 
although it was scarcely possible for any man to have copied nature 
as he saw her, with more truth. His landscapes may be characterised 
as combinations of many subjects, beautiful in detail, but, to a certain 
degree, confused in the whole, with respect to the management of 
light. Some critics have considered the colouring as heavy. Be that 
criticism just or otherwise, it will be allowed, that the oak and beech 
trees near Chichester, have been as admirably pourtrayed by George 
Smith, as the chesnut and hornbeam, near Naples, by Claude Lorraine, 

His best pictures, unquestionably, are those which are preserved in 
his own neighbourhood ; at Goodwood, painted for his noble patron ; 
and at Chichester, for his friends Dr. Bailey and Dr. Sanden. These 
were occasions which merited, and which drew forth his happiest 
exertions. His prize pictures have been finely engraved by Woollet. 
Many of his own and his brother's etchings are extant. The just 



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fame acquired by G. Smith has been eclipsed by that of Wilson, Bar- 
rett, Gainsborough and Marlow, who having immediately succeeded 
him, and occupied the public attention by the number, no less than the 
excellence of their works, the present age have assigned a lower rank 
to him, than that which he held, without an equal, in his life-time. 

He died in the autumn of 1775. 

The above notice has been extracted from " Dallaway's History of 
Western Sussex," and has been ascribed to the pen of Dr. Sanden. 

132. Landscape, John Smith. 

(6 ft. 4 in. by 4 ft. 6 in.) 

This and the previous picture are at either end of the room, and form a 
pair both in size and style of coloring ; it is however an inferior performance 
to his brother's; the fore -ground is formed by dark masses of foliage, 
wanting the relief ivhich the judicious introduction of stronger lights 
would have afforded ; the accessoi'ies of the composition are few, and the 
subject scanty ; there is an absence of intermediate scenery, but the dis- 
tance, as in the pictures of his more distinguished brother, is light and 
aerial. 

John Smith, the youngest brother, and successful pupil of George 
died a young man, in 1764. He had so nearly acquired the manner 
and excellence of his master, that they not unfrequently worked toge- 
ther on the same canvass ; and many prints were published of their 
joint performance. 

There is a fine mezzotint by W. Pether, who had painted a conver- 
sation piece, into which the three brothers were introduced, as con- 
sulting about a landscape. 

133. Sea-piece, representing the Bombardment of Havre- 
de-Grace, by Lord Rodney, in 1759, S. Scott. 

(4 ft. 4 in by 2 ft. Win.) 

134. A Sea-piece, representing Hawke's Victory over 
the French, in 1759, S. Scott. 

(4/*. 4 in. by 2 ft. 10) 
Two splendid and well executed pictures. 

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Samuel Scott was an eminent English painter of Views and Sea- 
pieces. Lord Orford says, " if he was but second to Vandervelde in 
sea-pieces, he excelled him in variety, and often introduced buildings 
into his pictures with consummate skill. He died in London, 1772. 

135. Portrait of Henrietta Maria, Duchess of Orleans, 

Sir P. Lely. 

(4/t. by 3/*. 4 in.) 

Represented in a sitting attitude, in a yellow satiii dress ; the features 
are seen in a three-quarter view. 

136. Sea-piece: — Anson's ship, the Centurion, sailing 
from England. 

(3 ft. by 3 ft. 2 in.) 

137. Sea-piece: — the Centurion returning to England. 

(3 ft. by 3 ft. 2 in.) 

138. Sea-piece : — the Royal George at Spithead. 

(3/*. by 3 ft. 2 in.) 



139. A Flemish Dance, with numerous figures, 
f 4 ft. 4 in. by 3 ft. 2 in.) 



140. Portrait of a Lady, Titian. 

(3/f. 8 in. by 3/*.) 
Representing a lady of middle age, in a dark high dress, and wearing a 
close white cap, the strings of which hang down below the ivaist ; the right 
hand crosses the body. The colouring is dark, and the details of the pic- 
ture indistinct. 



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141. The Cenotaph of Lord Darnley. 

(7 ft. 4 in. by 4 ft. 6 in. 

The title of the Picture is given by an Inscription in the right 
hand corner — 

Tragica et Lamentabilis intenecio 
Serenissimi Henrici Scotorum Regis.* 

The Piece in general represents a Chapel paved with Marble, 
before the Altar of which is exposed on a sort of Monument 
adorned with the trophies of the deceased, the effigies of K. Henry 
Darnley, and near the same, are King James his Son, the Earl 
and Countess of Lennox, his Father and Mother, and his younger 
Brother, all on their hnees, as beseeching God to punish and 
avenge his Murder. 

The Altar is towards the right hand, and upon it stands the 
Image of our Lord treading on a Death's head, pointing with his 
left hand to the Wound in his Side, and holding the Cross in his 
right, on which is a Paper with the usual Letters, I. N. JR. I. and 
on either side of the Altar are green Silk Curtains, upon Hods and 
Mings, as is common in Catholick Chapels. 

In different parts of the picture are the various scenes descrip- 
tive of this tragedy ; — in one is represented the inside of a chamber 
wherein is a bed, with two persons standing by it armed, the one at 
the head, as directing, and the other at the feet, as drawing the 
King's Body forcibly from the Bed ; near the feet of which is 
seen a pallet, wherein is an Old Man, dead or sleeping, the Cham- 
ber Door standing open the while. 

In another are represented, first a young Man lying dead, and 
almost naked under a Tree ; and it maybe remarked that he appears 
very tall, by the great length of his Legs and Thighs, as King 
Henry Darnley is known to have been. Somewhat farther off lies 
also the dead body of an old Man, in the same manner with hardly 
any clothes on. 

In one corner, as a small picture introduced, is represented a 
design of the battle array and transactions at Carberry Hill, when 

* The tragical and lameutable murder of the most Serene Henry King 
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Queen Mary parted from Earl Bothwell and surrendered herself 
into the hands of the Nobility. 

The Queen's army and BothwelVs is seen drawn up toward the 
top of the Hill, where the Royal standard is displayed, icith 
several Ensigns of St. Andrew's Cross. The Queen herself is here 
to be distinguished with one of her women on horseback, as also 
Earl Bothwell on a large white horse, with several others in Ar* 
tnour about him. At the foot of the Hill, as in low ground, where 
they may be sheltered from the fire of the Queen's Artillery, are 
represented the forces of the Confederate Nobility marching in 
Battle Array. Towards the lower right hand corner of this 
Landscape is a prospect of the City of Edinburgh with the name 
wrote over it. On the south side of the City was the Kirk-a-Field 
where stood the house, and garden in which the King was murdered. 

The house stood in the place where now is the house of the prin- 
cipal of the University of Edinburgh, and close by was a house 
sometime belonging to the family of Hamilton, where the publick 
schools are now kept. 

At a little distance from the Kirk-a-Field House, was a ridge 
of Rocks called Salisbury Craigs, and a high mountain called 
Arthur's Seat, both which are represented in this Landscape. 

It is obvious the doing this picture has been a matter of care and 
expence, having been a considerable time in hand ; for in the first 
inscription King James is said to have been sixteen months old, 
which he was in October 1567. So that the picture was then at 
least composed ; and it appears by another inscription that it was 
not finished till January following, about four months after. The 
exact agreement of it also, with the best historical accounts, shews 
great care was taken to represent the facts truly, and while they 
were fresh in every one's memory, it being as has been seen in hand 
within less than seven months after the Murder, and four after the 
transactions of Carberry Hill. 

142. Portrait of Mr. Abbott. Vandyke. 

(4/*. by 3 ft. 2 in.) 
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view, the hair dark and flowing, with mustachoes : the left hand is open 
and extended, and in his right he holds a letter. 

Mr. Abbot was a celebrated Scrivener in London, in the 
time of Charles I , and during the troubles was arrested and 
condemned, but was enabled to make his escape : he was a 
man of high character and immense property. 

143. Portrait of Frances Theresa, Duchess of Rich- 
mond. Sir P. Lely. 

(4/f. by 3 ft. 4 in.) 
A three quarter figure, in a low, brown dress, a blue robe falling over 
the left arm is looped over the shoulder, the hands cross the body and rest 
on a pedestal or table ; the eyes are full and languishing, and there is an 
air of great beauty and softness in the countenance. 

144. Portrait of General Monk, Duke of Albermarle, 

Sir G. Kneller. 

(3/t. 3 in. by 4 ft. 3 in.) 
A three quarter portrait in armour, the head bare, and the hair y 
of a light brown color, falls orrer the shoulders: a rich lace her- 
chief fastened round the neck, descends half way over the breast 
plate. His left hand is placed on his hip, and his right, holding 
a baton, leans on a pedestal covered with a crimson mantle, on 
which also lies his helmet. 

The subject of this picture was called on to play a conspi- 
cuous part in English History, the result rather however, of 
circumstances, than of ambition, or commanding talents. George 
Monk was born in 1608, and served for many years in the 
army of Charles I. During the civil wars he was made prisoner 
by Fairfax, and sent to the tower, where he was confined till 
1646. Through the interest of powerful friends he was at 
length liberated and eventually accepted a command under 
Cromwell by whom he was made Lieutenant General of Artil- 



104 GOODWOOD. 

lery> and when the former quitted Scotland in pursuit of 
Charles II, Monk was left to command in that Country with 
7O00 Men — and in the spring of 1654 received the appoint- 
ment of Commander-in-Chief of the Scottish Army, which he 
retained till the death of the Protector. 

On the accession of Richard to the Protectorate, General 
Monk quietly acquiesced in the change, and seemed only desi- 
rous of securing his own command. After his deposition, and 
the assumption of power by the Parliament, the determination 
of the General to take a leading part in the affairs of the king- 
dom became apparent ; and Lambert, his principal rival, who 
at that time possessed chief influence over the Army in Eng- 
land, was directed, by the Committee of safety, to march North- 
wards with a view to overawe Monk. The army however, 
deserted its leaders ; Lambert was arrested, and Monk imme- 
diately marched on London, where his influence at once became 
paramount. After a short time, during which the rump Par- 
liament was dissolved, he opened a communication with Charles, 
whom he proclaimed in London on the 8th of May, 1660. He 
met and welcomed the King at Dover, who received him with 
the distinction due to one who had been so instrumental in the 
great event. His rewards soon followed, and they were as 
ample as a subject could expect. He was created a knight of 
the garter, was admitted into the privy council, made master 
of the horse, gentleman of the bed chamber, first commissioner 
of the treasury, and finally was raised to the house of peers as 
Duke of Albermarle,with a grant of landed estate to the amount 
of 7000/. a year, besides other pensions. 

145. Portrait of Charles, first Duke of Richmond. 

(2 ft. Gin. by 2 ft. 1 in.) 
Taken when about the age of six years ; in a white dress with a 
blue scarf fastened on the left shoulder by an ornament : head bare, 
the right hand holding a wand. 



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146. Portrait of the second Duchess of Richmond. 

Sir. G. Kneller. 

(3/£. by 2 ft. tin.) 
A half length portrait in a blue and white negligee ; the left 
hand crossing the body holds the tassel of a crimson cushion, on 
which the elbow of the right arm reclines, at the same time sup- 
porting the head; the darh hair falls loosely over the shoulders. 

147. View of Richmond Castle in Yorkshire. 

G. Lambert. 

(3/f. 10 in. by 2 ft. Sin.) 

George Lambert, an English Artist of considerable merit, was 
born in 1710. He has the credit of being one of the first of the 
English Painters who treated Landscape with a pleasing and pictu- 
resque effect. The forms of his trees are grand and his masses are 
conducted with judgment. 

He died in 1765, Aged 55. 

148. A Sea piece, representing an Engagement. 
(3/£. by 4 ft. without a frame.) 



149. Portrait of Thomas Bruce Brudenell, first Earl of 
Ailesbury, 

(2 ft. 10 in. by 2 ft. 4 in.) 
A remarkably fine picture — the countenance is seen in a three quarter 
vieiv, and the features are commanding and expressive In scarlet and 
ermine robes, and holding a coronet. 

150. Portrait of Mary, third Duchess of Richmond. 

Angelica Kauffman. 

(2 ft. Gin. by 2 ft.) 
Represented in a Turkish costume, seated on a sofa covered with crim- 

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1 06 GOODWOOD. 

so?i drapery. She holds some embroidery in her hand, on which she 
appears to have been engaged. There is an air of great ease and elegance 
in the figure, and the colouring is most harmonious. 

This celebrated Artist, the daughter of Joseph Kaufftnan, a Swiss 
portrait painter, was born at Coire, the capital of the Grisons in 
1742. She early displayed great talents for Music and Painting, 
both of which arts she cultivated with extraordinary assiduity. In 
1765 she came to England, whither a very brilliant reputation had 
already preceded her. During a residence of seventeen years in this 
Country, she received a full share of honors, rewards, and distinc- 
tions, and in 1769 was admitted into the Royal Academy. "Her 
pictures are distinguished by an air of mild and virginal dignity; but 
there is a want of variety in her forms, of impassioned and charac- 
teristic expression in her heads, and of energy in her attitudes." 
She left England in 1782 and returned to Rome, where the exercise 
of her talents was equally well rewarded, which she continued with 
an undiminished reputation till her death in 1807. 



The windows of the Billiard Room reaching to the 
floor open on the gardens and pleasure grounds, and 
the prospect thus presented is truly beautiful and pictu- 
resque; an elegant little building, termed the Temple 
of Minerva, on an elevation opposite, forms a pleasing 
and prominent object. The furniture of the room is 
appropriate to the purpose for which it is applied. 

Leaving this apartment by folding doors, we enter an 
area enclosing 

THE STONE STAIRCASE. 

Since the first portion of these pages was printed, the 
East wing of Goodwood House, left in an unfinished state 



GOODWOOD. 107 

by the third Duke of Richmond has been completed. It 
comprehends on the ground floor, Ball, Turret and 
Supper Rooms, which open, en suite, from the Drawing 
Room. In the area, however, to which we have now 
conducted the visitor, are folding doors leading -to these 
new apartments, and as a notice of them has been, of 
necessity, omitted in its proper place, we shall enter on 
their description immediately after enumerating the pic- 
tures which surround the Staircase. 

An exquisitely finished model of a man-of-war co- 
vered with a glass case, is placed under the window. 

On the right hand, in the lower compartment, under 
the stairs is 

151. A Portrait of Oliver Cromwell. 

(I ft. 1 in. by 11 in.) 
The original of this portrait, which is a small full length, has always 
been ascribed to the pencil of General Lambert, taken before the Battle 
of Naseby. It represents the interior of a village ale house ; Cromwell, 
who appears smoking a pipe, is dressed in a buff jerkin, over which 
descends a steel cuirass. On his head is a broad hat turned up on one side 
with a feather in it. 

152. Monkeys at Cards. Teniers. 

(9 in. by 7 in.) 

153. The Lady's Last Stake. Hogarth. 

3/f. 6 in. by 3/t.) 
This well known picture painted for Lord Charlemont, was entitled 



108 GOODWOOD. 

" Picquet, or Virtue in danger." It is an interior scene and represents 
a young female who after a night spent at cards, has lost to a handsome 
gallant, her money, watch, jeicels fyc. He has risen from his chair and is 
in the act of displaying the valuables of which he has become possessed. 

The terms on ivhich he tenders their restitution may be well imagined 
from the countenance of the Lady— it is marked by doubt, hesitation and 
anxiety. The cards scattered on the fire and about the room too plainly 
denote that she tost her temper. 

The candles on the mantel piece are burnt doicn nearly to their sockets 
and the clock on which is a figure of Time, with the motto nunc, points to 
an early hour in the morning. The colouring is brilliant and the expres- 
sion on the features of the two figures most happily pourtrayed. 

William Hogarth, the most original of English painters, was born 
in London in 1698 — He was apprenticed to a Silversmith and was 
chiefly employed in engraving arms and cyphers on plate. His at- 
tachment to painting, however, induced him, immediately on the ex- 
piration of his apprenticeship, to enter the Academy in St. Martin's 
Lane. His first efforts were directed to portraits, and his great 
facility in catching likenesses, brought him great occupation.— In 
his series of the Harlot's progress, was displayed that matchless 
original talent, which at once elevated him to the highest rank in his 
profession and has secured to him a lasting reputation. These were 
followed by the Rake's progress — Marriage a la Mode — Industry and 
Idleness &c. 

The great merit of Hogarth's performances, was the rich vein of 
satire, by which they are almost all characterised. He ridiculed the 
follies and vices of the age with an unsparing hand, while the strokes 
of nature with which his pictures abound, bring them home to the 
heart and understanding of every one. Hogarth executed engra- 
vings from nearly all his own pictures with spirit and fidelity. 
He Died on the 26th. October, 1764. 



154. Landscape. Cuyp. (Senior.) 

(2 ft. 5 in. by I ft. 9 in.) 

Dutch Scenery ; on the right a ruined castle, with boats and fishermen, 
aflat landscape in the distance— The coloring is tame and insipid. 



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Jacob Cuyp, a Dutch Artist, born at Dort 1580, was the father of 
the celebrated painter of that name. His pictures are but little 
known out of Holland, and generally represent views in the neigh- 
bourhood of Dort. 

155. Poultry. Hondecooter. 

(1/*. 6 in. by lft. 4 k 

156. Poultry. Hondecooter. 

{I ft. 6in. by lft. 4 in., forming a pair with the preceding) 

Two very highly finished and spirited paintings. 

This eminent Artist was born at Utrecht, 1636. His chief subjects 
are domestic fowls, the plumage of which is painted in the most per- 
fect manner and with uncommon accuracy ; his touch was firm and 
bold, and his coloring rich and mellow. He Died at the age of 59. 

157. Dutch Landscape, with boats and fishermen, on 
copper. 

(lft. lin. by 10 in.) 

158. An Italian Landscape, with ruins and figures. 

(i ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 10 in.) 

159 An old painting representing the interior of the 
antient Court of Wards ; numerous figures. 

(2 ft. 4 in. by 2 ft. 4 in.) 

160. Sea port, Ruins and figures. 

(1/*. 10 in. by lft. 4: in.) 
A highly finished and brilliantly colored picture : two figures in the 
fore ground, a )nan on a white horse and a female with dead poultry are 
executed with much spirit. 



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161. St. Agnes. 

(l/*.8 in by lft. 5 in.) 
This picture has always been ascribed to the younger Teniers. It 
seems to be a sketch for a larger picture ; The style is bold and masterly 
and the coloring vigorous, but coarse and unfinished. It represents the 
Saint in the attitude of prayer beside a rude altar, nn which is an open 
book and a crucifix, at her feet is a lamb : the back ground a wild 
landscape. 

162. A Head. Guido. 

(oval.) 
An arrow has just pierced the breast ; the countenance expresses deep 
anguish, the eyes are turned upward with an air of resignation. The co- 
loring of the flesh is pale and death-like. 

163. Landscape. John Smith. 

(2 ft. by 1 ft. 5 in. 

164. Landscape. George Smith. 

(2 ft. by 1 ft. 5 in. forming a pair with the preceding.) 
These two beautiful pictures hang on either side of the doors leading to 
the Ball Room and strongly display the characteristic excellencies of the 
Artists. In both, the composition is full and admirably arranged — the 
tints clear and transparent— the distances embracing a wide extent of 
scenery are managed with singular skill and felicity, and the foliage is 
light and airy. There is however, a warmth of coloring which distin- 
guishes the picture of George from that of his brother. 

165 Children disputing for Fruit. Piazzetti. 

(lft. 5 in. by lft. 1 in.) 
A well executed and striking picture. It represents two Children quar- 
relling for the possession of a piece of fruit, with their mother seated in a 
chair, endeavouring to restore peace between them. The characteristic 
and chief excellence of the piece consists in the admirable disposition of the 



GOODWOOD. I 1 1 

lights and shadows, which are strongly opposed ; the figures stand out in 
hold relief, and the attitude of the child who retains possession of the prize 
is spirited and happily conceived 

G. P. Piazzetti was born at Venice in 1682. He early adopted the 
style of Guercino, and the picture above described is a favorable 
specimen of his success ; in his endeavours, however to display strong 
contrasts, 

166. Landscape, with Elijah and the Widow of Zare- 

pliath. POELEMBURG. 

(11 in by 9 in) 

A pleasing and well finished little picture ; the figures are introduced 
with great neatness and accuracy. 

C. Poelemburgh, was born at Utrecht in 1586. He adopted a 
pleasing style of painting small landscapes, distinguished by the 
suavity and delicacy of his coloring, an agreeable choice of scenery, 
enriched with architecture, into which he introduced figures as re- 
markable for the neatness of his pencil and the cleaness of his carna- 
tions, as they are deficient in design." He visited London at the 
invitation of Charles I. where he painted many of his best pictures. 

167. Portrait of Madame de Montespan, by a French 
Artist. 

(3/f 9 in. by 2 ft. 11. in.) 

Represented in a reclining posture, with a blue drapery loosely 
thrown over her; before her lies a book supported by a skull. 

Madame de Montespan was for many years the favorite 
mistress of Louis XIV, she having succeeded in weaning his 
affections from the beautiful and unhappy La Valliere. She 
was a brilliant, witty, and ambitious woman. 

Mr. James, in his life of Louis XIV. thus speaks of her, we 
are told that Madame de Montespan only sought to captivate 
the mind of the King ; but Louis, unrestrained by any moral 



112 GOODWOOD. 

principle was not likely to be timid in declaring the feelings 
with which she had inspired him. For a time the new intrigue 
of the dissolute monarch was studiously concealed, and the 
children, which were the fruits thereof, were born and educa- 
ted in strictest privacy. After the final retirement, however 
of La Valiere to the convent of the Carmelites, the liason was 
openly avowed and the mistress triumphed over the wife in the 
midst of state, and pomp, and display, the adulation of Cour- 
tiers, and the enjoyment of power. But, continues Mr. James, 
if her love of ostentatious luxury, of magnificent palaces and 
gardens, of works of art of all kinds, of splendour, pomp, and 
display, contributed to dissipate large sums, and encouraged in 
Louis that taste for boundless expense which, combined with 
other faults, exhausted his treasury and ruined his finances, 
she was, at the same time, the liberal protector of arts and 
sciences, the friend and patron of genius wherever it was to be 
met with, the benefactor of the poor and the needy, the first to 
admire virtue in others, and to bestow praise and honour where 
it was due. Misfortune or sorrow seldom applied to her in 
vain, and she ever shewed herself fearless and generous in ad- 
vocating a just cause with a monarch who was not always sen- 
sible of justice. Eight children were the result of this con- 
nexion, to whom the King was much attached. Madame de 
Montespan was in her turn supplanted by Madame de Mainte- 
non who afterwards became the wife of Louis. She died at 
the waters of Bourbon in 1707 at the age of sixty-six. 



16*8. Madonna and Child. 

(2 ft. 2 in. by lft. 6 in.) 

Ascribed to the pencil of Parmigiani : the Infant Christ is lying 
before the Virgin with his left arm leaning on a globe, and his right 
hand holding a rose. 



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169. An Infant John the Baptist. 

(4 ft. 2 in. by 3/f. 4 in.) 
This picture has been ascribed to Sir P. Lely, and the head, 
which, there is little doubt is a portrait of the first Duke of Rich- 
mond, presents all the characteristics of his style — but little finish 
has been bestowed on the general subject. 

170. Copy of the famous picture of the Marriage in 
Cana. Paul Veronese. 

(6 ft. 10 in. by Aft. 10 in.) 
The original of this extraordinary Picture is now in the Gallery 
of the Louvre at Paris ; it is upwards of twenty five feet wide and 
consists of an immense assemblage of figures, many of them portraits. 

171 View in Iceland — The Geysers. 

(2 ft. 8 in. by 1 ft. 8 in.) 
172. View of Etna in Eruption. 

(3 ft. by 2 ft.) 



173. View of Vesuvius in Eruption. 

(% ft. by 2ft.) 

These pictures were painted from sketches by Sir William Ha- 
milton. 

1 74. St. John Preaching. 

(4 ft. 6 in. by Z ft. 2 in.) 
" In those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness 
of Judea, and the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and 
aleathern girdle about his loins."— St. Matthew c. 3. v. 1—4. 

P 



1 14 GOODWOOD. 

175. Christ and the Mother of Zebedee's Children. 

(4 ft. & in. by % ft. 2 in.) 

"Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her 
sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. And 
he said unto her, what wilt thou ? she said unto him, grant that 
these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other 
on the left, in thy Kingdom." — Matthew ch. 20 —v. 20, 21 . 

176. View in the High Wood,Goodwood. 

George Smith. 

(4: ft. by 3 ft. 5 in.) 

177. 178. 179. 180. Four Views of the City of 
Geneva. 

(each 4 ft. 6 in. by lft. 10 in.) 



181. Landscape. John Smith. 

(Aft. 2 in. by 3 ft. 4 in.) 

For this beautiful picture, the Society for the encouragement of 
Arts Sfc. awarded the second premium in 1760; George Smith 
having gained the first. In the coloring and composition it 
strongly resembles the productions of his talented brother ; the sub- 
ject is full and well arranged, the tints harmonious and a finished 
delicacy of touch is perceptible in every part : a view of Chi- 
chester Cathedral is introduced in the distance. 



182. Historical piece. Solimene. 

(2ft. din. by lft. 7 in.) 

Representing Alexander the Great, receiving the medicine from 
his Physician in spite of the warning that he had received from his 
friend Parmenio that it was likely to be poison. 






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183. Historical piece. Solimene. 

(2 ft. 3 in.by lft. 7 in. forming a pair with the preceding.) 

Representing the same Conqueror in the act of cutting the fa- 
mous Gordian Knot. 



1S4. Historical Piece — Antiochus and Stratonice. 

James Barry. 

(4 ft. lin. by 3 ft. 4 in.) 

A striking and attractive picture. The subject is tak".n from a well 
known and romantic stonj in Grecian History related by Plutarch in his 
life of Demetrius — Antiochus, son of Seleucus was violently enamoured of 
Stratonice his father's young wife : considering his passion hopeless he 
gave himself up to despair and resolved by neglecting all care of his per- 
son, and abstaining from food, to terminate his existence. His physician 
Erasistratus easily discovered the cause of his illness, but it was difficult 
to conjecture who was the object. In order to find it out he spent whole 
days in his chamber, and whenever any beautiful person entered it he ob- 
served his patient ivith great attention. When others entered he was 
entirely unaffected, but when Stratonice came in, either alone, or with 
Seleucus, his altered demeanour, at once proved to his experienced physician 
that she was the object of his passion. To save his Son's life, as the story 
goes, Seleucus consented to their union and made them King and Queen 
of Upper Asia. 

The painter has chosen the time when Stratonice, with three attendants, 
has presented herself before the couch of Antiochus ; his eyes are fixed on 
her with an air of melancholy , blended with resignation. The features of 
the old physician, who by the pulse is reading the thoughts of the dejected 
youth, are singularly expressive. The mild and benevolent expression of 
Seleucus, who is seated by his Son's side, contrasts admirably with the 
thoughtful and anxious look of Erasistratus. 

James Barry, a British Artiist of strong original talent was born at 
Cork 1741. What are termed the eccentricities of genius, were, un- 
fortunately for his professional prospects, and his peace of mind most 
fully developed in the character and conduct of Barry. In 1782 he 



116 GOODWOOD. 

was elected professor of painting to the Royal Academy ; but so in- 
consistent were his propositions, and so ill-judged his censure, that 
he was first removed from the chair and afterwards expelled. "Few 
men" says his biographer," appear to have had more correct notions of 
the true principles of painting, and few have departed more widely 
from them ; his ambition was to excel no less as a theorist, than as a 
practical artist ; and when he has failed in either character, it may 
be attributed to the peculiar turn of his mind, which in his early, as 
well as in his advanced years, gave strong indications of derange- 
ment."— He died in 1806. 



3 85. Portrait of Sophonisba Angosciola, playing on a 
harpsicord, painted by herself. 

(3 ft. 7 in. by 3 ft. 6 in.) 

A three-quarter portrait in a high black dress, above which, around the 
neck is a small lace collar, with ruffles at the wrists ; the hair plaited 
close on the head. The accessories of the picture are in deep shadow, the 
light being almost wholly thrown on her face and hands. To her right, 
in the back ground is an old attendant. 

Sophonisba Angosciola, was born at Cremona, of a noble family, 
in 1533 ; she attained a high reputation in the profession to which she 
devoted herself. As a painter of portraits, which are characterised 
by extreme ease and grace in the attitudes, she ranked amongst the 
most eminent of her day. Her sisters, Lucia, Europa, and Anna 
Maria also practised the art, the second with almost equal success. 

She died 1626, having reached the great age of 93 ; a deprivation 
of sight, caused by too close an application to her canvass, took 
place many years previously. 



186. Portrait of George II. Hudson. 

{1 ft. by Aft. 6 in.) 

A full length figure, in his robes, seated in a chair of state, and wearing 
the George and the Garter : his left hand holds a sceptre, and the right 
arm reclines on a carved table on which is seen the crown ; the back 
ground formed by red drapery. 



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Thomas Hudson, a popular portrait painter of his day, was born 
in Devonshire 1701. His productions have but little merit as works of 
art, and on the rise of Sir Joshua Reynolds, he retired from the prac- 
tice of his profession and died, in 1779. 



187. Portrait of Caroline, Queen of George II. 

Hudson. 

(7 ft. by 4 ft. 6 in.) 

A full length figure attired in a white satin dress, with a deep flounce 
of gold embroidery ; a dark mantle and train fastened in front ivith jew- 
els, and lined with ermine. She holds a Sceptre in the left hand, and the 
crown lies un a table to the left. 

This picture, has always been ascribed to Peter Vander Banck ; an 
eminent engraver : the fact, however that he died thirty years previous to 
the accession of George II. setting aside his not following the profession 
of a painter, must disprove the assertion. As the picture possesses all the 
characteristics of Hudson's style, by whom the portrait of her husband 
was painted, his name has now been affixed to it. 



188. Portrait of "Sebastien de Penancoet de Keroualle, 
Compte de Keroualle, frere de Louise, Duchesse de 
Portsmouth et d'Aubigny." 

(4/*. 4 in. by 3 ft. 5 in. 
A three-quarter portrait in half armour, his helmet lying on a table. 

189. A Vase of flowers. 

(3 ft. 2 in. by 2 ft. 5 in. 

190. Portrait of Robert Brudenel, second Earl of Car- 
digan. 

(4 ft. 2 in. by 3/£. 4 in.) 



118 GOODWOOD. 

This nobleman was the grandfather of Anne, wife of the 
first Duke of Richmond, he died in 1703, at the advanced age 
of 102. 



191. The Dream of St. Helena. Passignano. 

{1 ft. by Aft. \ in.) 

This large painting which is by no means a finished specimen of art, re- 
presents the Saint asleep in a sitting posture, the head reclining on the 
right hand : two cherubim are descending ivith the cross. 



192. Portrait of George III. Allan Ramsay. 

(J ft. 10 in. by 4 ft. 10 in.) 

A full length in his robes of state, wearing the George and Garter : his 
left hand leans on a table on which is the crown, and the right hand is 
placed on the hip : his dress a light satin, richly figured. 

Allan Ramsay, was born at Edinburgh in 1709. He painted 
portraits with considerable ability and success, although he never 
reached the highest rank in his profession. He was in great favor 
during the early part of the reign of George III. and died 1784. 



193. Portrait of Charlotte, Queen of George III. 

Allan Ramsay. 

(7 ft. 10 in. by Aft. 10 in.) 

In her robes of state ; a light dress richly embroidered ivith gold, and 
slate colored mantle lined with ermine : her left hand touches the crown 
which lies on a cushion at her side. 



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194. Portrait of " Margaretta Cecilia, Countess of Ca- 
dogan, daughter of Mr. Munster of Holland, born 
16th. July, o. s. 1675." 

(4 ft. 10 in. by 3 ft. 7 in.) 

This Lady was the wife of William Earl of Codogan and 
mother of Sarah, second Duchess of Richmond. 



195. Portrait of a Lady, by a French Artist. 

(4 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. Sin.) 

Representing a young and beautiful woman ; she is seated on a 
couch, the left arm leaning on a crimson pillow, and holding a dove 
in her hands : a cupid by her side rises as if attracted by the bird. 

The hair is dark and flowing ; a deep blue mantle thrown over 
her arm, passes behind her and falls in front of the picture. The 
coloring is gaudy, but the attitude is easy, elegant and unrestrained, 

196. Portrait of Mrs. General Dorrien. Romney. 

(Aft. by 3ft. 2 in.) 

A full length, seated on a bank and caressing a dog. Attired in 
a high white dress and rustic straw hat. This picture displays 
more care and finish than Homney was wont to bestow on his 
productions : the features are handsome and animated. 



197. Portrait of the Hon. Mrs. Damer. Romney. 

(2 ft. 5 in. by 2ft.) 

This picture displays a marked contrast to the preceding one by 
the same Artist. The style is bold and masterly, but unfinished 
even to coarseness. The subject of it is represented in half 'length f 
in a pink dress fastened over the breast by an ornament, with the 
arms folded. 



120 GOODWOOD. 

A notice of this accomplished and talented woman is given 
at page 40. 



198. Portrait of Dr. Buckner, Bishop of Chichester. 

ROMNEY. 

(2ft.5in.by2ft.) 

Dr. Buckner, an eminent and learned Divine, was born in 
Chichester 1734, and educated at the Charter House, and at 
Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 1/98 he was consecrated Bishop 
of Chichester, and died 1824. 



199. Portrait of James, first Duke of Leinster. 

(2 ft. 4 in. by 2 ft.) 

This Nobleman married 1747, Lady Mary Lennox, third 
daughter of the second Duke of Richmond. He was the fa- 
ther of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. 



200. Lion and Lioness Stubbs. 

(2ft. 6 in. by 2ft. 1 in.) 

George Stubbs, an eminent painter of Animals was born at Li- 
verpool 1724. He applied particularly to the study of Horses, and 
of Ms skill in this branch of his profession we have a proof from 
several pictures at which we shall presently arrive. He also greatly 
excelled in the delineation of other animals. 



THE EAST WING 

Of the House was intended to have been appropriated 
to the purpose of a Picture Gallery, but at the death 
of the third Duke of Richmond in 1806, the extensive 
additions to the old mansion, planned by him, and then 
in rapid progress, were suspended. The portion thus 
unfinished included the entire East Wing, and which till 
the last few months has remained in the same state 
without floors, or ceilings, in fact with nothing but the 
bare walls. A sketch, by the Duke's own hand, of what 
the room was to have been is still in existence, the 
names of the best pictures with the positions they were 
to occupy, being marked down on it. 

Goodwood House is rather singularly planned, being 
built on four sides of a hexagon, with towers at the an- 
gles, the offices are at the Western extremity, and the 
principal apartments occupy the three sides, and open 

Q 



122 GOODWOOD. 

into each other, although no vista can be obtained 
through the whole at one time owing to the peculiarity 
of their arrangement. 

In the spring of 1838, the completion of the mansion 
was commenced, from the designs and under the super- 
intendance of John Elliott, Esq., Architect of Chiches- 
ter, and it having been finished with great magnificence 
was opened on the 2Jth. February, 1839, being the day 
on which the Earl of March attained his majority. 

The Ball Room is nearly ninety feet in length, thirty 
feet in width, and twenty five feet in height. It is 
lighted by five windows, placed on the Eastern side of 
the apartment. The centre of this side to the ex- 
tent of one half of its length is carried out several feet, 
and in the recess thus obtained four columns are placed, 
pilasters finishing the wall on either side. The shafts of 
the columns are of granite, of similar size and dimen- 
sions to those in the Entrance Hall, with statuary mar- 
ble bases, veined marble plinths, and capitols, in white 
scagliola, of the Corinthian Order. These support a 
highly enriched Entablature which is continued round 
the room forming the cornice ; the enrichments are gilt, 
and the mouldings picked out in gold. The mouldings 
forming the bases of the columns are also continued 
round the room, and gilt to correspond with the cor- 
nice. 

On the opposite side are doors communicating with 



GOODWOOD. 123 

the Supper Room. The two fire places have Chimney 
pieces beautifully executed in statuary marble with cou- 
pled Corinthian Columns and cornice. The Gallery for 
the orchestra is at the lower end of the room, and con- 
tributes very much to its general effect : the railing in 
front is composed of a very rich gilt scroll similar in de- 
sign to the enrichment in the frieze of the cornice. 
— Four splendid looking glasses adorn the apartment ; 
one on each of the chimney pieces — one, between them 
opposite the centre of the recess, and one at the upper 
end, between the doors opening to the Drawing Room. 
The latter is placed on a solid marble step correspond- 
ing with the plinths of the Columns, from which it 
reaches to the under side of the cornice, being with the 
frame nearly sixteen feet in height : it is said to be the 
largest plate in the kingdom. Three magnificent or- 
molu chandeliers, each bearing twelve lamps are sus- 
pended from the ceiling. The draperies are of white 
satin damask, edged with gold, with a rich gilt cornice 
over them. In the recess the cornice is continued over 
the windows, and the drapery is elegantly arranged be- 
tween them. The effect of the room when lighted up 
is exceedingly chaste and brilliant. 

The Turrret Room, opening from the Ball Room, 
and fitted up in a corresponding style, leads into the 
Conservatories. 

The Supper and Ante-Rooms are much simpler in 



124 GOODWOOD. 

their character but have a pleasing and finished appear- 
ance. They are also lighted with ormolu chandeliers : 
the drapery is of yellow satin damask edged with gold, 
and with gilt cornices similar to those in the Ball Room. 
The occasion chosen for the first display of these 
princely Halls was the day on which the eldest Son of 
their noble owner, the cherished heir not only of his 
great possessions — but of his unsullied name, attained 
the age of manhood.* A panegyric either on the public 
or private character of the Duke of Richmond would, 
perhaps, be misplaced in these pages. It will, at this 



* The following beautiful Stanzas were addressed to Lord March, by Charles 
Crocker, the talented and favorite Poet of Chichester. 

Through Goodwood's groves Joy's gladsome voice 

Is heard exultant far and wide ; 
" Come ! and let every heart rejoice ; 

And care awhile be laid aside." 
In Cottage, Hall, and Bower, around, 
The cheerful shouts of mirth resound ; 

All hail the auspicious day 
That gives to Manhood Richmond's Heir, 
Whose manners bland — whose virtues rare 
All his ancestral fame shall share, 

And claim the Minstrel's lay. 

And while the Fair — the Rich — the Great, 

Join in the festive dance'and song ; 
While village bands, to celebrate 

The glad event, assembled throng ; 
The Muse aloft on buoyant wing, 
Thus, 'mid the general joy would sing ; 

" Oh ! bright be His career, 
Graced with that gentleness of mind, 
That energy with worth combined, 
The birthright of his race and kind, 

Through many a future year. 



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time, suffice to say, that, independently of the fair pro- 
mise which accompanies the introduction of the Earl of 
March to the honors, the cares and the realities of life, 
the reputation of his Father, tried and sustained — by 
his own hearth — in fields of stricken battle — and in the 
difficulties of the senate — has tended to awaken a deeper 
interest in the welfare of the Son. 

In the bye-gone days when the appellation of "Merry 
England,' 5 was so appropriately and justly bestowed on 
this island, the fearless bearing and disinterested patrio- 
tism of the " Barons," exercising a great and important 
influence on the minds of the people, contributed mainly 
to the formation of the national character : and although 
the events of succeeding years have, to a great extent, 
changed the nature of their services, and narrowed the 
sphere of their operations, yet the maintenance of that 
character, in all its manliness and purity, depends in no 
slight degree, on the firmness and example of their de- 
scendants. 

The high and responsible station, therefore, which in 



And should dread war— which Heaven avert, 

Its horrid ravages renew, 
He to his side may proudly girt 

The sword that gleamed at Waterloo : 
And, fired with all a hero's zeal, 
May Anglesey's high spirit feel ; 

Or, at the helm of state, 
With Wisdom and with Truth preside. 
Or, happier far, from pomp and pride 
Retired, spread comfort far and wide, 

And thus be truly great." 



126 GOODAVOOl). 

the course of nature, at some distant period Lord March 
may be called on to fill ; a station involving the discharge 
of duties and the exercise of power affecting the pros- 
perity of the extended circle of which he will be the 
centre — has long attracted the observation and awakened 
the solicitude of those by whom the influence of his ex- 
ample will, naturally and more especially be felt. Under 
these circumstances it is not a matter of surprize that 
the Duke of Richmond should have been desirous to 
distinguish the day — to him so proud and interesting — 
when his Son attained his majority, by a generous and 
widely extended hospitality. 

An Entertainment on a scale more magnificent and 
recherche than was ever remembered in Western Sus- 
sex was given at Goodwood House on Wednesday the 
2 /th. February, 1S39.* 

The noble Host had assembled around him at Good- 
wood a large and distinguished party of the Nobility, 
among whom we will venture to name two, who hailed 
the day with no ordinary feelings of pride and gratifica- 



*It is a co-incidence, which although now well remembered, should 
not be omitted in these pages, that on the same day (1814) the Duke 
of Richmond received a dangerous wound from a musquetball, never 
yet extracted, at the battle of Orthez — the almost closing scene of 
those brilliant operations of the English Army under the Duke of 
Wellington, which terminated the Peninsula war in the defeat of the 
French troops, although commanded by " a Marshall of the Empire" 
and on what Soult once termed " the sacred territory of France." 



GOODWOOD. 1 27 

tfon; thegrandsire of the young Earl, the veteran soldier, 
the Marquis of Anglesey who as Earl of Uxbridge led 
the British cavalry to victory at Waterloo, — and an il- 
lustrious and high-born Lady, the daughter of a Gordon 
— the widow of the late, and mother of the present 
Duke of Richmond.* 

A Stag hunt in the Park commenced the rejoicings 
and festivities of the day. In the ample Tennis Court 
at Waterbeach, which was most tastefully fitted up for 
the occasion with banners, and laurels, and flowers, and 
lighted by thousands of variagated lamps, nearly three 
hundred Gentlemen met at dinner to celebrate the event. 
Lord George Lennox m. p. for Western Sussex presiding. 
The reception given to the Earl of March who with 
his Father entered the Hall in the course of the Evenings 
was most cordial and enthusiastic. As night set in, the 
Lodges leading into the Park were illuminated, and a 
huge bon-fire on the summit of St. Roche's Hill, the 
highest elevation of the Downs, shed its light for miles 
over the surrounding country. A Ball and Supper to 
nearly seven hundred of the Nobility and Gentry of the 
County followed in the evening, all the arrangements for 
which were conducted with extraordinary splendor and 
magnificence. f 

*A costly and elegant piece of plate was presented to Lord March 
on the morning of the 27th, by the Duchess Dowager of Richmond. 
t Upon this occasion, the fine Entrance Hall was converted into a 



128 GOODWOOD. 

On the succeeding Friday the Duke of Richmond en- 
tertained his tenantry and their friends at dinner, which 
was laid in the New Ball Room : nearly two hundred of 
" the Farmers of Sussex/' on this occasion partook of 
his Grace's hospitality. Nor were the humbler classes 
forgotten at this festive time; a liberal donation was 
given to every individual employed on the estates, and 
the children of the Boxgrove School, and of the 
West-hampnett Union, to the number of seven hundred, 
were plentifully regaled in the Park on the following 
Saturday. 



Drawing Room, in which the Duke and Duchess of Richmond re- 
ceived their company, from whence they passed to the Saloon and 
Ball Room. A temporary avenue, one hundred feet long, lighted by 
variegated lamps, and beautifully decorated with flowers and laurels, 
was erected from the centre window of the large Library across the 
lawn, at the extremity of which the carriages drew up. The Egyp- 
tian Dining Room, the Long Hall, the Tapestry Drawing Room, and 
the Old Dining Room were prepared for the supper. It is needless 
almost to add that to give eclat to this splendid fete every thing 
which wealth, taste, and ingenuity could supply, was to be found in 
lavish profusion. At any time the richness of the furniture, and the 
beauty and rarity of the articles of virtu, which adorn Goodwood 
House, could not fail to excite attention and admiration, but on the 
evening in question the brilliancy of the illumination, with the im- 
mense additional decoration, rendered the scene one of surpassing 
magnificence. 



Subjoined are the Names and Residences of those present at the 
Entertainment. As an occasion on which so many Sussex families 



THE LONG HALL, 

To reach which, we must retrace our steps through the 
principal apartments, formed the Entrance, or Vestibule 
to the old mansion, and is now but little used. At 
either end are six fluted columns of the Ionic Order, 
supporting a deep cornice. The extent of the Saloon 
within the columns is in length fifty nine feet, and in 
width twenty feet. On each side of the doors leading to 
the domestic offices are bronzed busts of Charles II., 
and Sarah, second Duchess of Richmond. In niches 
are placed antique heads of Nero, Caligula, and two 
Roman Empresses, and on the upper end are two Library 



were assembled, may not again occur, the Author conceived that the 
addition might prove an interesting record in future years. 

Marquis of Anglesey, London Earl and Countess Bathurst, 
The Misses Alcock, Midhurst Lady G. Bathurst 
Mr. & Mrs. Aldridge, Horsham Hon. W. Bathurst, Wood End 
Capt. and Mrs. Appleby, Mr. and Mrs. C. Baker, 

Littlehampton Sennicotts 

Mr. and Miss Atherly, Arundel Miss Baker, Chichester 
Rev. H. Atkyns, Chichester Mr. and Mrs. Batson, ^i Idwick 

n 



130 



GOODWOOD. 



Tables, containing Atlasses and Portfolios of valuable 
drawings and engravings. Over the fire place let into 
the panels are two paintings. 



Mr. & Mrs. Barwell, Ash/old 
Rev. W. S. and Mrs. Bayton, 

Westergate 
The Misses Bayton, 
Mrs. J. Baker, Chichester 
Mr. Balchin, Arundel 
Mr. Battley, Field Place 
Mr. C. Beauclerk, St. Albans 
The Misses Beauclerk, Horsham 
Mr. A. Berkeley, Funtington 
Mrs. A. and Miss Berkeley, 
Mr. Fitzhardinge Berkeley 

Wood End 
Lord George Bentinck, London 
Lord George Beresford, 

Avisford 
Rev. G. Betheune, Whyke 
Mr. C. Bedford, Ashlyng House 
Mr. & Mrs.T. Biddulph Bognor 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Bishop, 

Westburton 
Mr. & Mrs. R. Birney, Rogate 
Capt. and Mrs. Blachford, 

Fishbourne 
Rev. R. Blakiston, Chichester 
Miss D. Blades, Fishbourne 
Rev, Mr. Bland, Slynfold 
Rev. T. and Mrs. Blagden, 

Washington 



Mr. Blagden, Petworth 
The Misses Blagden, 
Mr. J. Blagden, Chichester 
Sir E. Bowater, London 
Mr. P. Boghurst, Worthing 
Mr. & Miss Boghurst, 
Lieut. Boyce, Bognor 
Admiral and Mrs Bouverie, 

Portsmouth 
Lieut. Borrer, Henfield 
Mr. and Mrs. T. Broadwood, 

Horsham 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Broadwood, 
Miss Broadwood, 
Mr. H. Broadwood, Junr. 
Rev. J. Broadwood, Wiggenholt 
Mr. T. Broadwood, Junr. 

Horsham 
Miss Brusby, Chichester 
Miss Brereton, Chichester 
Mr. and Mrs. C. Bridger, 

Worthing 
Mr. Bradburn, Chichester 
Mrs. and Miss Bradburn 
Rev. W. Bradford, Storrington 
Mrs. and the Misses Bradford 
Mr. Bradford, Rifle Brigade 
Rev. T. Brown, Chichester 
Miss Broughton, Chichester 



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131 



201. A View of London from the Terrace of Richmond 
House, embracing the Thames, on which is seen a 
state Barge, boats and numerous figures; St. Pauls, 



&c, 



Canalletti. 



(S ft. 9 in. by 3/*. 5 in.) 



Rev. C. & Mrs. Buckner, Whyke 
Mrs. & Miss Buhler, Midhurst 
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Bunny, 

Slinfold 

Mr. and Mrs. W. Butterfield, 

Petersjield 

Rev. Mr. Butler Warblington 

Lord Cantelupe, London 
Rev. Mr. Calhoun, Goring 
Mr. Capel, VZth. Lancers 
Rev. Mr. Caunter, Pulborough 
Rev. D. & Mrs Clarke Iping 
Miss Clifford Slindon 
Lady Marianne Compton, 

Coolhurst 
Mr. & Mrs. Coppard, Horsham 
Mr. Coffin, Bognor 
Mrs. and Miss Coffin, Bognor 
Mr. Constable, Bognor 
Mr. & Mrs. Cole, Funtington 
Mr. and Mrs. H. Comper, 

Chichester 
Mr. E. H. Cobby, 
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Collins, 

Stedham 
Sir J. G. Crosbie, Watergate 
The Misses Crosbie, 
Capt. Crosbie, 
Major Croft, Chichester 



Miss Cutfield, Chichester 

Mr. Dalbiac, Uh. Dragoons 

The Misses Daintrey, Fetworth 

Mr. Davidson, Trotton 

Mr. &, Mrs. Daubez, Worthing 

Mrs. Davies, Chichester 

Mr. and Mrs. Davis, Midhurst 

Rev. J. Delafield, Littlehampton 

Lady C. Delafield, 

Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Deacon, 

Densioorth 
The Misses Deacon, 
Mr. J. Deacon, 
Mr. H. Deacon, 
Mrs. C. and Miss Dendy, 

Chichester 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Dennett, 

Worthing 
Capt. Dennett, 
Mr. T. P. Dennett, 

Storrington 
Mrs. and Miss Dennett, 
Mr. and Mrs. C. Dixon, 

Stansted 
General Dickenson, Worthing 
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, 

Ferring 
Mr. C. S. Dickins, Stohe 
Lady K Dickins, Stoke 



132 



GOODWOOD. 



202. A View in London, including the Gardens of 
Richmond House, White Hall, the old Treasury 
Gate &c. with figures. Canalletti. 

(Z ft. 9 in. by 3 ft. 5 in.) 



Mr. Dilke, Chichester Mr. and Mrs. T. Evans, 

Mr. W. Dilke, Leominster 

Mr. & Mrs. F. Dixon, WorthingThe Misses Evans, 
Mrs. Gen. Dorrien, Lavant Miss~Eversfield,Wa?'nham Court 

Mr. 0. and the Misses Evans, 



Mr. C. Dorrien, 

Rev. S. and Mrs. Douglas, 

Ashling 
Miss Douglas, Ashling 
Mrs. Dodd, Chichester 
Mr. Drewitt, jun. Arundel 
Sir P. and Lady Durham, 

Portsmouth 
Miss Du Val, Stoke 
Mr. A. Duke, Chichester 



Littlehampton 
Mr. and Mrs. Farhill, Southton 
Rev. S. Fairless, Itchenor 
Capt. G. Falcon, Buncton 
Mrs. G. Falcon, 
Lord A. Fitzclarance, London 
Hon. C. Fitzroy, Slynfold 
Mr. Fitzpatric, Bognor 
Mrs. & Miss Fitzpatric, Bognor 



Mr. & Mrs. W. Duke, Arundel Mr. J. Fielding, Haslemere 



Mr. k Mrs. C. Duke, Lavant 

Mr. Edmonds, Worthing 

Lieut. Edmonds, 

Miss Edmonds, 

Rev. E. Eedle, Bersted V. 

Mrs, and Miss Eedle, 

Rev. Mr.and Mrs. Elms, 

Itchingfield 
The Misses Elms, 
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, Petworth 
Mr. R. Elliott, Chichester 
Mr. J. Elliott, Chichester 
Mr. J. Elwes, London 



Mr.and Mrs. Fisher, Midhurst 
Dr. Forbes, Chichester 
Lieut. Forth, Funtington 
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Freeland, 

Chichester 
The Misses Freeland, 
Mr. W.H. Freeland, 
Mr. E. Freeland, 
Mrs. Gen. Frazer, Ashling 
Mr. & Mrs. G. Frazer, 
Capt. C. Frazer, 
Mr. and Mrs. Frankland, 

Muntham 
Mr. R. French, Littlehampton 



Earl of Erroll, Richmond Park Lieut. Fullarton, Chichester 



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133 



203. 204. 205. 206. Portraits of Race Horses. 

Wootton 



The latter of these four is in the 
Room. 



passage leading to the old Dining 



Col. and Mrs. Gascoigne, 

Dale Park 
Mr. and Mrs, Gibbs, Itchenor 
Mr. J. G. Gibson, Storrington 
Mr. G. Gibson, 
Mr. Gillhum, Chichester 
The Misses Gillhum, 
Mr. C. Goring, Wiston 
Mrs. and Miss Goring, Wiston 
Mr. H. D. Goring, M. P. 

London 
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Goringe, 

Southwick 
Mr. W. K. Gratwicke, 

Angmering 
Rev. C. and Mrs. Green, 

Midhurst 
Rev. Mr. & Mrs. Green, Rogate 
Rev. J. C. Green, Rustington 
The Misses Green, Rustington 
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Gruggen, 

Chichester 
Mr. T. Green, Chichester 
Mr. T. Groom, Broadwater 
Mr. C. Groom, Broadwater 
Capt. and Mrs. Graham, 

Chichester 
Miss Graham, Chichester 
Rev. Mr. Green, Oving 



Miss Guy, Westergate 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Hawkins, 

Bignor Park 
The Misses Hawkins, 

Bignor Park 
Mr. and Mrs. W. Harrison, 

Emsworth 
Mrs. Haslar, Bognor 
Mr. W. Hazlewood, 

Slaugham Park 
Rev. C. Hardy, Hayling 
Mr. and Mrs. R. Haslar, 

A Idingbourne 
Mr. & Miss Halsted, Woodcote 
Mrs. Hale, Vetworth 
Mr. E. Hardy, Walberton 
Mr. C. J. Hector, M. P. 
Miss Hector, Petersfield 
Mr. and Mrs. E. Henty, Ferring 
Mr. and Mrs. G. Henty, 
Mr. and Mrs. R. Henty, 

Chichester 
Mrs. Heming, Midhurst 
The Misses Heming 
Hon. R. Howard, London 
Mr. and Mrs. Hasler Hollist, 

Lodsworth 
Rev. T. Howe, Bosham 



134 GOODWOOD. 

207. Race Horses training, with portraits of the third 
Duchess of Richmond and Lady Louisa Lennox. 

Stubbs. 

(6 ft. 8 in. by Aft. 6 in.) 

Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins, ArundelThe Misses King 

Mr. R. Holmes, Arundel Mr. J. King, Loxwood 

Mrs. and Miss Holmes Mr. J. King, jun. 

The Misses Holland, Poynings Rev. C. and Mrs. Kinleside, 

Rev. W. and Mrs. Holland, Poling 

Chichester Miss Kinleside, Ham 
Dr. Hunter, 12th. Lancers Rev. Mr. Klanert, Petworth 

Dr. and Mrs. Humble, WorthingMr. D. Knight, Chichester 
R. Hurst, Esq. M. P. Horsham 

Miss Hurst Capt. Lawrance, Portsmouth 

Mr. and Mrs. Hurlstone, Mrs. and Miss Lawrance 

Chichester Mr. J. W. Ladbroke, Petworth 
Miss Hurry, Funtington Lord Leveson, London 

Lord and Lady G. Lennox, 
Mr. and Mrs. Ingram, Steyning Mr. and Miss Lennox 
Mr. and Mrs. James, Lord W. P. Lennox 

Fair Oak Lodge Mr. and Mrs. Levin, Salthill 
Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Jervoise, Rev. H. Legge, Lavant 

Idsworth Park Hon. Mrs. Legge 
Mrs. & Miss Johnson, ChichesterThe Misses Legge 
Mr. E. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. G. Lear, 

Mr. J. Johnson Storrington 

The Misses Johnstone, ChichesterCol. Leslie, Slindon house 
Dr. Jones, Horndean Lady Dorothy Leslie 

Mr. A. Joseph, Bognor Miss Leeves, Tortington 

Col. and Mrs. J ones, PortsmouthSir H. Leeke, Emsworth 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Jupp, Pulboro' Lady and Miss Leeke 

Mr. J. Lindegreen, Portsmouth 
Hon. Capt. Keppel Mr. J. Lidbetter, Bramber 

Hon. Mr. and Mrs. King, Mr. and Mrs. Logan, Haslemere 

Fryern, Storrington Mr. Lowndes, Chichester 



GOODWOOD. 135 

208. Lord Holland, the Earl of Albermarle and others 

Shooting. Stubbs. 

(6ft. 8 in. by Aft. 6 in.) 



Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Luxford, Mr. & Mrs. Minnett, Highden 

Bognor Mr. Morant, 12th. Lancers 
Rev. J. & Mrs. Lyne, EmsworthMrs. Munday, Hollybank 
Capt. and Mrs. Lyon, Rogate Mr. and Mrs. Murray, Petwortk 

The Misses Murray 
Mr. Maxse, Minister from U. SMr. W. P. Murray 

to Belgium Rev. Mr. Munroe, Deeding 
Mrs. and Miss Maxse 

Mr. Maxse, Woolbeding Mr. and Mrs, Napper, Petworth 

Lady Caroline Maxse Countess of Newburgh, Slindon 

Sir T. M'Mahon, Portsmouth Major and Mrs. Newland, 
Lady and Miss M'Mahon Midhuvst 

Capt. M'Mahon Mr. and the Misses Newland 

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mant, Rev. H. Newland, Westbourne 

Storrington Mr. and Mrs. C. Newland, 
Miss Mant Westburton 

Dr. and Mrs. M'Carogher, Mr. and Mrs. W. Newland, jun. 

Chichester Chichester 

Rev. J. W. Mackie, London Mr. J. Newland, Broadwater 
Mr. J. P. Martin, Pulborough Mrs. and Miss Newland 
Mrs. and Miss Martin Mr. and Mrs. H. Newland 

Hon. P. Methuen, London Hon. Mr. Needham, 12th. Lancers 

The Misses Merricks, JRuncton Lady Nightingale, Avisford 
Mr. & Miss M'Gregor, London Mrs. Major Nicolls, Chichester 
Mrs. and Miss Mitford,Pefo/;or^Marquis Northampton, London 
Mr. W. Mitford Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Nourse, 

Rev. W. and Mrs. Miller, Clapham 

Chichester The Misses Noton, Chichester 
Mr J. W. Miller 

Lieut. Miller, 12th. Lancers The Misses Ommaney, 
Rev. E. & Mrs. Miller, Bognor Warblington 



136 



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209. The third Duke of Richmond, his brother Lord 
George Lennox and General Jones on horseback, 
with servants and dogs. 

(6 ft. 8 in. by 4 ft. 6 in.) 



Mr. C. Osborn, Hayling Rev. G. and Mrs. Porcher, 

Mrs. and Miss Otter, Chichester Oakwood 

Mr. A. Otter The Misses Porcher 

Lieut. Otway, Portsmouth Rev. R. Powell, Boxgrove 

Capt. Pole, 12th. Lancers 
Hon. B. Paget, Hampton Court Rev. G. Pocock, Arundel 
Mrs. B. and Miss M. Paget Mr. and Mrs. R. Prime, 
Rev. J. Pannel, Stansted Walberton 

Mrs. and Miss Pannel Mr. and Miss Prime 

Mr. & Mrs. Padwick, Horsham Mr. and Mrs. Price, Chichester 
Mr. & Mrs. Parrott, Fishbourne Mr. and Mrs. E. Prother, Wales 
The Misses Pack, Avisford 

Mr. G. Paul, Worthing Dr. & Mrs. Quarrier, Hollybank 

Mrs. Paul, Horsham 

Mr. Lawrance Peel, Brighton Mr. & Mrs. ~Rocw\ms(m,Horsham. 
Lady Jane Peel Rev. W. Ravenhill, Leominster 

Capt. Penfold, JRustington Mr. R. Raper, Chichester 

Mr. T. Penfold, Steyning Mr. R. F. Raper, 

Mrs. H. and the Misses PenfoldMiss Raper, 
Mr. Penfold, jun. Sir T. Reynell, Avisford 

Mr. & Mrs. G. Peskett, Bognor Lady Elizabeth Reynell 
Mr. and Mrs. Peckham, Nyton Major Richardson, Chichester 
Rev. W. and Mrs. Pearce, HamCwpt. Richardson, Findon 
Hon. Capt. Pitt, London Capt. & Mrs. Rich, Hamp. Court 

Mrs. and Miss Pilkington, Mr. W. Ridge, Chichester 

Shopwyke Mr. C. Ridge 
Mr. G. Pilkington Mr. Rhoades, Chichester 

TheMissesPilkmgton,Cfa*<?/*esterMr. E. and Miss Rhoades 
Hon. A. Ponsonby, London Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rhoades 
Mr. Postlethwaite, Hambrook Mr. Roods, Fetworth 






GOODWOOD. 137 

Leaving this apartment by a door on the right we 
enter the Old Dining Room, which is twenty five feet 
square. It contains two recesses filled with imple- 

Col. Rowan, London Mrs. Smith, Stoke 

Rev. J. P. and Mrs. Roberts, Miss C. Smith, Horsham 

Chichester Mr. P. Smith, Horsham 
Mr. and Mrs, Rusbridger, Mr. and Mrs. Snook, Chichester 

Goodwood Mr. St. George, 12th. Lancers 
Mr. and Mrs. W. Stent, 
Major and Mrs. Sandham Fittlewovth 

Washington Mr. & Mrs. Stedman, Horsham 
Mr. Sandham Mr. and Mrs. W. Stedman 

Mr. & Mrs. Sanctuary, HorshajnMr. Stedman, Jun. 
Major and Mrs. Sabine, Miss Stedman, 

Tortington Mr. and Mrs. Stracey, Bognor 
Mr. Saville, Bognor Miss Stracey, 

Admiral Schomberg, Bognor Lord and Lady Suffield, London 
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Schomberg, Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Swale, 

Edburton Portsmouth 

Mr. W. Seymour, Runcton Capt. and Mrs. Sweetenham, 
Miss G. Seymour, Wood End Bognor 

Capt. Sivewright, 12th. LancersMiss Sweetenham, 
Col. and Mrs. Sissmore, Bognor 

Lady Shelley, Horsham Mr. E. Talbot, London 

The Misses Shelley Mr. E. Titchener, Chichester 

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Shelley Rev. Mr. Thompson, 
Mr. and Mrs. Shirley, Midhurst West Wittering 

Mr. G. Shute, Chichester Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Thornton, 

Mr. Sherwood, Chichester Wisborough Green 

Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Dale ParkMiss Thomas, Arundel 
Miss Smith Mr. and Mrs. W. Thompson, 

Mr. and Mrs. F. Smith, Salthill Bognor 

Capt. Smith, Bognor Mr. Thurlow, Slindon 

Rev. G. Smyth, Pagham Mr. Tottenham, 12th. Lancers 

Mr. & Mrs. E. Smith, HorshamCaipt. Travers, Portsmouth 

s 



138 



GOODWOOD. 



ments of Indian warfare, &c. The superior accomoda- 
tion, however, afforded by the more modern portion of 
structure has thrown this room into this disuse. 



Lieut. Travers, 

Rev. R. and Mrs. Tredcroft, 

Tangmere 
Mr. and Mrs. H. Tredcroft, 

Wamhamcourt 
Mr. W. Tribe, Worthing 
Mr. J. Tribe, Steying 
Rev. J. Tuffnell, Mundham 
Rev. W. Turner, Goodwood 
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Tvvyford, 
Trotton 
Mr. and Mrs. S. Twyford, 

Mr. E. Upperton, Thakeham 

Lord Villiers, London 



Rev. Mr. Wells, Wiston 

The Misses Wells 

Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Webber, 

Lavant 
Mr. Wells, Midhurst 
Rev. C. Webber, Chichester 
Rev. Mr. and Mrs Witherly, 

North Chapel 
Miss Wilmot, Storrington 
Mr. J. F. Wilson, Chichester 
Mrs. White, Wooldingfold 
Mr. W. Whitter, Midhurst 
Mr. Whitter, Steyning 
The Misses Whitter, 
Mr. & Mrs. H. White, Bognor 
The Misses Whicher, Peter sfield 
Mr. & Mrs. A. Veal, Chichester Rev. G. H. Woods, Westdean 

Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Woods, 
Mr. & Mrs.W&rdroiper, Midhurst Chilgrove 

Mr. and Mrs. R. Wardroper Mr. J. Woods, Chidham 
Mr. E. Wardroper, Arundel Rev. H. and Mrs. Wood, 
Mrs. Warren, Ashington Chichester 

Mr. P. and the Misses Warren Col, G. Wyndham, Petworth 
Rev. W. and Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. and Miss Wyndham, 

Chichester Col. Charles Wyndham, Bogate 
Miss Watson, Lancing Mrs. C. Wyndham, 



THE TAPESTRY DRAWING ROOM, 

The principal saloon of the old house, is also compa- 
ratively deserted. It is nevertheless a finely propor- 
tioned and elegantly finished apartment. The windows 
open to the lawn and command a beautiful view of the 
grounds ; the Dog Kennels a very handsome building, 
terminating the prospect. The Walls are hung with 
magnificent Gobelin Tapestry, presented by Louis XV. 
to the third Duke of Richmond when Ambassador at the 
French Court. It consists of four divisions representing 
scenes from the adventures of Don Quixotte. These 
beautiful specimens of skill and ingenuity are in the most 
perfect preservation, and have all the appearance of highly 
finished paintings. The immediate subjects are sur- 
rounded by imaginary frames, beyond which are festoons 
of flowers, and a peacock with its tail spread surmounts 
the whole. The colours are most brilliant, and the fea- 
tures of the numerous figures singularly expressive. 

The largest, facing the windows is fourteen feet, by 
twelve feet, and contains ten figures, the subject is 



140 GOODWOOD. 

Don Quixotte consulting the Enchanted Head. 

The adventure of Mambrino's Helmet, which the Knight 
has just seized; the poor barber is escaping in the 
distance — five figures. 

(9 ft. by 12 ft. ) 



Don Quixotte fastened to the window by Maritornes- 
seven figures. 

(9 ft. by 12 ft.) 



The adventure at the Inn, with the Chambermaids. 

(17/*. by 12 ft.) 

Over the door is a vase of flowers also in Tapestry, of 
great beauty, and of equal brilliancy with the larger 
pieces. 

The plaster cast, from the face of William Pitt, taken 
a few hours after his death on January 23rd. 1806, by 
Nollekens, is preserved here in a glass case. 

The Chimney piece is an exquisitively finished work 
of art, the production of one of the most celebrated of 
English Sculptors, John Bacon. It is in white marble, 
and consists of two figures male and female, about five 
feet in height, drawing aside a drapery which unveils 
the fire place, and forms the upper portion of the design. 

It was executed for the third Duke of Richmond, from 



GOODWOOD. 1 4 1 

whom the Sculptor received the sum of five hundred 
pounds.* 

The size of the room is thirty five feet, by twenty 
three; the ceiling with the cornice and mouldings richly 
carved and gilt : the floor is covered with a magnificent 

* Bacon's merits have been widely acknowledged — he felt where his 
strength lay, when he said his statues were his best works. He in- 
fused more good English sense into his sculpture than any preceding 
artist. Having little imagination, he willingly welcomed those fi- 
gures which Spenser calls " dark conceits," because they came with- 
out study or meditation. His style of sculpture was, with the excep- 
tion of his single statues, decidedly of that kind called the picturesque. 
The result of the whole is sometimes magnificent — the figures are 
well placed and commanding — the auxiliary symbols are scattered 
with profuse liberality, and the workmanship is ever neat, skilful, 
elaborate. 

****** 

One day while he was in Westminster Abbey, he was accosted by 
a stranger, who said, " That monument to Chatham, sir, is admirable 
upon the whole, but it has great, defects." " I should feel obliged 
sir," said the sculptor, " if you would be so kind as to point them out 
to me." " That I will gladly," said the stranger — " Why here ! and 
there! and there!— don't you see? bad, very bad !" and at every 
word he spoke he struck the places alluded to with the iron end of 
his walking stick, in a manner that seemed likely to hurt the work. 

" But will you tell me, sir," said the sculptor, " your reasons for 
thinking those parts bad ?" " I have already done so to Bacon him- 
self, sir," said the critic, " so I shall not repeat them to you — I 
pointed out other defects too while the monument was forming, but 
he refused to be convinced." " What then you are personally ac- 
quainted with Bacon ?" said the sculptor, not a little amazed. " O 
yes, sir," replied the other, " I have been intimate with him for many 
years ; a clever man, sir, but obstinate." " Were Bacon here now," 
said the artist, turning away, " he would not like to hear a friend of 
such old standing speaking of his work so roughly." 

Allan Cunningham. 



142 GOODWOOD. 

carpet of British manufacture to match the Tapestry. 
The sofas and chairs, which are carved and gilt, are 
covered with white satin, richly embossed in various co- 
lors. Four looking glasses of very large dimensions oc- 
cupy different parts of the room. Adjoining is 

THE STATE BED ROOM 

Enjoying the same delightful prospect and embellished 
in a similar manner to the Drawing Room. The Ta- 
pestry is in four compartments, each nine feet by eleven 
feet, six inches, and represents the Seasons. The bed- 
stead is a very gorgeous piece of furniture ; the drape- 
ries are composed of crimson velvet and satin, with the 
arms of the family embroidered in gold, The apartment 
is replete with every comfort and elegance. Three 
pictures adorn the walls — 

210. Portrait of the second Duchess of Richmond. 

Sir G. Kneller. 

(7 ft. 4 in. by 4 ft. 6 in.) 
Represented in robes of state and wearing a coronet. 

211. View of Windsor Castle. G. Lambert. 

(3/*. 10 in. by 2 ft. 8 in.) 

212. View of Dover Castle. G. Lambert. 

(3/*. 10 in. by 2 ft. 8 in. 



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The Dressing Room attached to the State Chamber 
is a neat and elegantly furnished apartment, with two 
windows looking on the Gardens : with the exception of 
the following paintings however, there is nothing in its 
appearance which requires particular notice. 

213. View in Rome; the ruins of the Coliseum 

H. Van Lint. 

(2 ft. by 1 ft. 4 in.) 

214. View in Rome; the ruins of the temple of Anto- 
ninus, &c. H. Van Lint. 

215. Snow piece. 

(10 in. by 7 in.) 

216. Portrait of Madame de Montespan by a French 
master. 

(3 ft. by Z ft. 10 in.) 
A well painted and striking picture : in a rich undress, the right arm 
resting on a crimson cushion, with blue drapery. The attitude is elegant 
and unconstrained. The features full and voluptuous, and the draperies 
disposed with much ease and taste. 

217. A flock piece, with the inscription " Cathelouze a 
dieppe." 

218. 219. Noon and Evening, a pair. C. Poelemburg. 

(10 in. by 7 in.) 



144 GOODWOOD. 

220. View in Iceland. 

(3 ft. by 2 ft.) 

221. St. Madelina; a reclining female figure: a blue 
drapery loosely thrown over her. Copy from a 
painting by Coreggio in the Dresden Gallery. 

(3 ft by 2 ft. 2 in.) 

222. Battle piece. 

(2 ft. A in. by 2 ft.) 



In the passage which we now enter, is the staircase 
communicating with the sleeping apartments of the old 
House. In the one immediately over the Dining Room 
is a fine painting (223) of the first Duke of Richmond, 
when a youth wearing the robes of the order of the Gar- 
ter, by Sir G. Kneller. In the Billiard Room in a glass 
case, is an Egyptian Mummy of a female, in an excel- 
lent state of preservation ; it is about five feet high, and 
the colors of the figures and hieroglyphics with which it 
is covered are as brilliant as if recently laid on. It was 
sent to England from Egypt, as a present to the third 
Duke of Richmond, in a stone case, or coffin, on which 
an inscription had been placed, but the lid being unfor- 
tunately broken and lost, it is uncertain from whence 



GOODWOOD. 145 

the body was taken, or what was the rank, which, when 
animated, it held in Society.* 

* The following extract from a journal of M. Villotean, communica- 
ted to M. de Sacy, will give a pretty correct notion of the swathings 
and general appearance of an enbalmed Egyptian body. 

" The 5th of October, 1800, having left Carnak, we passed to the 
other bank of the Nile and encamped opposite the village of Gour- 
ney. Scarcely were we encamped, when we saw some men approach 
with dead bodies on their shoulders, which turned out to be mum- 
mies. They put them on the ground, and offered them for sale. One 
was the mummy of a female very well preserved. As we wished to 
know how it had been embalmed and swathed, we took off the outer 
covering, consisting of an upper and a lower part, the opening of 
which had been laced in front. With much care we took off a great 
number of bandages, which passed round the legs and feet, the thighs, 
the body, arms and head ; and after this, we began to distinguish 
more clearly the forms of the extremities, the head, feet, and hands, 
while the shape of the bosom and body were still but faintly visible. 

" As we came nearer to the skin, the bandages were broader ,and the 
extremities became distinct. At last we could clearly distinguish 
the nails of the fingers and toes, the nose, mouth, and eyes. Finally, 
we came to a kind of envelope which covered every part ; so that we 
took off in a single piece the part which covered the higher division 
of the face, and which preserved perfectly the form of the projecting 
features. The other parts were more covered in proportion, but those 
where the embalmer had been skilful enough to fill up the form, 
shewed us nothing but black and dry members. The shape and the 
colour of the nails, expressed on the envelope, disappeared. 

" Yet all the parts of the body, though dried, retained their natu- 
ral form. The hair, eyes, nose, and mouth were so well preserved, 
that one could easily recognize the expression of countenance which 
they must have produced. The hair was quite black, without any mix- 
ture of white hair, though the person appeared to have been old at the 
time of death. All that we could observe was, that it was a little red 
at the roots. The hair was well fixed, long, and divided into plaits, 
fastened up on the head rather carelessly ; which makes me infer, 
that at that time the women let their hair fall down along their back 
in numerous tresses. 

T 



1 46 GOODWOOD, 

Again returning to the Staircase Hall, we shall con- 
duct the Visitor through the principal suite of Chambers 

" The eyelids, lashes, and eyebrows were still in their natural state 
— the eyes only appeared to be slightly injured, because they were 
dried, and the pupil had shrunk in a little. The nose was pretty 
nearly in its natural state, very regularly formed and very beautiful. 
The tongue was dry and like a piece of parchment. The lips were 
thin, and the mouth small. The teeth appeared to be worn out through 
old age, and to have lost their sharpness, but they were all there, 
and seemed not to have been decayed. Even at the prescntday, it 
is remarkable that the natives of Egypt have very good teeth, which 
they keep to the most advanced age. The head of this mummy pre- 
sented in general a tolerably regular oval. The body had been open- 
ed on the left side of the stomach in order to get at the entrails, and 
to introduce the aromatic substances ; and we drew out enough to sa- 
tisfy ourselves, that these were resinous materials. As to the sexual 
parts, though dried, they preserved their form. 

" This female mummy had the arms and hands extended, and 
placed along the body, while a male mummy, which we examined, 
had the arms crossed on the breast ; facts which we observed to be of 
regular occurrence in the female and male mummies." 

The Book of Genesis contains the earliest notice of embalming in 
Egypt ; and, independent of the evidence furnished by the mummies 
themselves, proves the high antiquity of the practice. When Jacob 
died — " Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm 
his father ; and they embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled 
for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed ; 
and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days." (Ge- 
nesis, chap. 1.) Jacob's body was then carried into Canaan, accom- 
panied by " all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and 
the elders of the land of Egypt," and deposited in the sepulchre 
which Abraham had purchased in the neighbourhood of Mamie. This 
was indeed " a very great company," as the book of Genesis describes 
it, and the ceremony may fairly be considered as what usually occur- 
red on the death of an Egyptian of high rank. Joseph also was em- 
balmed, and he was put into a coffin or mummy -box in Egypt. When 
the children of Israel were flying from the bondage of the Pharaohs, 
they took with them the bones of their great ancestor Joseph, in com- 



GOODWOOD. 147 

on the first floor. In the Ante-Room which is ap- 
proached from the Gallery of the Staircase, is a collection 
of stuffed birds ; a model of a 74 gun ship, unrigged ; 
and very many rare and choice Engravings, among which 
we would select the following as worthy the attention of 
the connoisseur : the Pembroke family from Vandyke : 
Charles I. on horseback ; Charles h, full length ; Hen- 
rietta Maria and Children, from Vandyke : George IV. 
when Prince of Wales, from Harlow : Napoleon from 
David : Cenotaph of Lord Darnley and Battle of Car- 
berry Hill : Francis, Duchess of Richmond, from Kneller 
and Lely: Charles II. from Lely : Queen Elizabeth's 
progress to visit Lord Hunsdon : Baron, Vertue, Strange, 
Faber, &c. engravers. 

To the right we enter the apartments of the Duke and 
Duchess, comprising Turret, Sleeping, Dressing, and 
Bath Rooms. In the former is a collection of Sabres — 
one, very handsomely mounted, bears the following in- 
scription, " Presented by the Goodwood Troop of Yeo- 
manry Artillery to their Commandant, His Grace the 
Duke of Richmond, as a token of their respect and es- 
teem" — and others, trophies of different victories. The 
following prints adorn the walls, 

pliance with his dying injunctions ; and they finally deposited the re- 
mains of Joseph at Shechem, in the promised land, after having car- 
ried them about in their wanderings more than forty years. 

Egyptian Antiquities. L. E. K. 



148 GOODWOOD. 

The Duke of Wellington giving orders to his Generals 
previous to a General Action. The scene upon 
the ground of the Battle of the Nivelle. 



Thomas Graham, Baron Lyndock, from 

Sir T. Lawrance, 



" General Graham was born in 1750 and created a Peer in 
1814 for his distinguished conduct and gallantry in the Penin- 
sular War. His Lordship gained the Victory of Barrosa j and 
in every engagement in which it was his good fortune to be 
present, maintained the high character of devoted heroism, 
which the natives of the northern part of the Empire share 
with their southern Neighbours." 



Lieutenant General, Sir John Moore; fell at Corunna, 
January, 1809. 



Right Honorable Major Cocks : fell at the Siege of 
Burgos, October, 1812. 



Major J. Le Marchant; fell at Salamanca, July, 1812. 

" In this charge, Major J. Le Marchant was killed at the 
head of his Brigade, and I have to regret the loss of a most 
able Officer." 

Wellington's Dispatch, July 24th. 1812. 






GOODWOOD. 149 

Sir Ralph Abercrombie : fell in Egypt. Lord Hill, Com- 
mander of the Forces. Lord George Lennox— 

224. Portrait, in crayons, of the late Duchess of Argyle. 

(2 ft. 8 in. by 2 ft. 4, in.) 

225. Portrait of a child, with a doll. 

(2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in.) 

In the Dressing Room adjoining, are two water color 
Drawings by Varley and the following prints : portraits 
of the Earl of Uxbridge; Duke of Richmond; Lady 
Henrietta Mordaunt, afterwards Duchess of Gordon ; 
Francis Stuart, Duchess of Richmond ; and view of Christ 
Church College Oxford : over the fire place, fixed in the 
wainscot is 

226. Portrait of Louisa, Countess of Berkeley. 

Sir G. Kneller. 

(4: ft. by 3/f. 3 in.) 

In the chamber, which, with the other rooms is fur- 
nished with extreme neatness, in one painting are 



227. Portraits of the three eldest Children of the Duke 
and Duchess of Richmond. Millichat. 



150 GOOD WOOf). 

The prospect of the surrounding Country from the 
windows of these Apartments, is extensive and beauti- 
ful, and bounded by the English Channel. 

In the corridor, behind the bedrooms, on the first floor, 
which extend along the entire front of the house, are a 
fine collection of chalk drawings, studies from the an- 
tique ; two cabinets of rare china, and a third of shells 
and minerals. The walls on either side are lined with 
maps and prints, including a series of views in India ; 
many by Woollett from Smith's pictures ; death of Nel- 
son from West ; meeting of Henry VIII. and Francis I. ; 
George III. and family from Zoffany ; Abraham dismiss- 
ing Agar, and Esther before Ahasuerus, from Guercino; 
&c. The following pictures are in the centre compart- 
ment of the corridor, 

227. View from the gardens of Halnaker House. 

(1 ft. 6in. by Z ft. 10 in.) 

228. View of Halnaker House and Gardens. 

(7 ft. 6 in. by $ft. Id in.) 

229. Portrait of Admiral Kepp el. Romney. 

(2 ft. by 2 ft. Gin.) 

Augustus Keppel, second son of the Earl of Albemarle 
who married Lady Anne, daughter of the first Duke of Rich- 
mond, was brought up under Lord Anson and was present at 



GOODWOOD. 151 

the taking of Paita. In Hawke's action off" Belleisle, he com- 
manded the Torbay. 74. In 1762 he was promoted to the 
rank of Rear Admiral of the Blue. He represented Chichester 
from 1754 to 1764. 



230. Portrait of Lady Louisa Conolley. Romney. 

(2 ft. bij 2 ft. 6 in.) 

This Lady was the daughter of the second Duke of Rich- 
mond, and married, 1743, Thomas Conolly, Esq. of Castletown* 
in the County of Kildare, Ireland. 

231. Portrait of William Bentinck, Earl of Portland, 

(2 ft. by 2 ft. 6 in.) 

The ancestor of the Duke of Portland : he accompanied 
William III. from Holland, and held the first place in his con- 
fidence and favor. He was created in 1689 Baron of Ciren- 
cester, Viscount Woodstock, and Earl of Portland ; he was 
made a knight of the Garter, and Groom of the Stole to the 
King 5 he Commanded a Dutch Regiment of Horse-Guards, 
with which he attended the King to Ireland in 1690, and was 
his Lieutenant General at the battle of the Boyne ; he attended 
the King in all his wars, and was constantly employed in 
public business throughout King William's reign, and was the 
last person the King spoke to at his death. The Earl after- 
wards led a retired life, and died in 1709. 



232. Portrait of Pope Clement XV. 

(2ft.lin.by$ft. I in.) 



152 GOODWOOD. 

233. Portrait of George, first Marquis of Huntly. 

(2 ft. by 2 ft. 6 in.) 

Five chambers occupy the front of the mansion : they 
are very handsomely furnished, and replete with every 
elegance and comfort. The centre one which is imme- 
diately over the Entrance Hall, is termed the China 
Room, and is fitted up with articles of Indian Manufac- 
ture. Recesses at each end are filled with a valuable 
collection of Dresden, Sevre and Indian porcelain con- 
sisting of the choicest vases, bowls, jars, tea and other 
services. 

The walls are hung with an Indian chintz paper, and 
two very large plates of looking glass are let into the 
side of the apartment, and two others are placed over 
the chimney pieces ; the facings of the shutters are also 
fitted with glass. The windows open to the upper colon- 
nade forming a delightful promenade, and commanding 
views of the coast for many miles. 

In the four other rooms, the lover of art will be gra- 
tified by the drawings and numerous prints, both colored 
and plain, with which they are adorned : Mrs Siddons 
from Lawrance; Lord Nelson, from Bowyer; Battles 
of La Hogue and the Boyne, from West ; the Duchess 
of Bedford from Hoppner ; three Children of Charles I. 
from Vandyke ; Marquis of Anglesey from Strockling ; 
may be noticed as very choice and fine impressions. 



GOODWOOD. 1 53 

Among them, however, we must not omit to call 
attention to a series of portraits in crayons of the mem- 
bers of the celebrated "Goodwood Hunt;" these com- 
prise the following names, 

Lady Louisa Lennox Hon. T. Steele 

Lady Mary Lennox Mr. R. Steele 

Dowager Lady King Mr. Peckham 

Mrs. General Dorrien Mr. and Mrs.Tredcroft 

Miss Bunbury Mr. and Mrs. Leeves 

Earl of Egremont Colonel Teesdale 

Lord King Rev. Mr. Toghill 

Lord Pelham Rev. Mr. Alcock 
Sir H . Fetherstonhaugh 

In the East Wing and over the new Ball Room is 
an extensive suite of chambers, very neatly finished and 
fitted up, and like almost all the other apartments of the 
house, covered with drawings and engravings. 

We have thus concluded our imperfect survey of the 
interior of Goodwood House. Much has doubtless been 
omitted, and still more, perhaps, too hastily dismissed 
that might have merited a careful, and more minute in- 
vestigation: but the limits to which it was originally 
proposed, that this publication should extend, have al- 
ready been exceeded ; while at the same time, a more 
diffuse and critical examination of the pictures would 
scarcely have been in accordance with the object for 
which it has been compiled. 



THE PARK. 

High Wood — Temple of Minerva and Neptune — Hermitage — 
Orangery — Dairy — Trees — Gardens — Dog Kennels — Stables 
— Pheasantry — Cairney Seat, See. &c. 

That species of Landscape, known as Park Scenery 
is peculiarly a characteristic of England. The attach- 
ment of all classes to a rural life, is strongly displayed in 
the Mansions, the Villas, and the beautiful Cottages 
which form so prominent a feature over the face of the 
whole country. There is nothing which strikes foreign- 
ers so much as the beauty of our country abodes, and the 
peculiarity of our country life. "The elegancies, the arts 
and refinements of the city are carried out and blended, 
from end to end of the island, so beautifully with the 
peaceful simplicity of the country, that nothing excites 
more the admiration of strangers than those rural para- 
dises, the halls, castles, abbeys, lodges, and cottages in 
which our nobility and gentry spend more or less of 
every year. 5 '* 

* Howitt. 



GOODWOOD, 155 

A Park, by which is meant some hundreds of acres of 
ground, set apart for pleasure, planted with noble trees 
and surrounding a country seat, is almost unknown ex- 
cept in England; "and the rich green velvet turf which 
characterises an English Park is no where to be found 
after leaving Great Britain, till it is accidentally met 
with in some nook of a Swiss Valley or on the summit 
of some Appenine."* 

Although nature may do much towards the formation 
of these beautiful scenes, yet man does much more: a 
picturesque or commanding situation, without the in- 
tervention of art may be wholly thrown away, while 
oftentimes, by the merely judicious grouping of trees of 
different forms, a spot unmarked by natural beauties — 
a lawn unvaried by a single swell, may present an agree- 
able and a lovely scene. But at Goodwood, both nature 
and art have contributed with a liberal hand. 

The situation of the House, although not in the cen- 
tre of the Park, is nevertheless so far removed from its 
extremities, as to have ample space around it. To the 
East, at the distance of a few hundred yards, commence 
those beautiful swells and valleys, which add so greatly 
to the charm of the landscape, and mark peculiarly the 
cultivated scenery of the South Downs. It was the in- 
tention of the third Duke the great improver of these 

* Sir T. Dick Lauder. 



156 GOODWOOD. 

estates, to have surrounded the entire park with a flint 
wall, which was commenced in 1761* that the Deer, now 
as then, kept at Halnaker, might have been introduced 
into it. This undertaking, however, was never carried 
into effect, and in many parts the plantations are the 
only boundaries. 

The grounds immediately connected with the House, 
termed the High Wood, include about forty acres, and 
are enclosed on all sides. The approach from the win- 
dows of the Tapestry Drawing Room is very pleasing ; 
they open to an extensive lawn of the finest turf, bounded 
on each side by forest trees, grouped with much effect. 

To the right on an artificial elevation, a temple has 
been erected for the purpose of receiving a Stone, bear- 
ing one of the earliest Roman inscriptions in England. 
It was discovered in 1731, in digging the foundations 
of the Council Chamber in the City of Chichester, and 
although partly defaced and broken, the inscription may 
be readily made out; it is as follows 

NEPTVNO ET MINERVAE 

TEMPLVM 

PRO SALVTE DOMVS DIVINiE 

EX AVCTORITATE IMP. TI. CLAVD. 

ET COGIDVBNI REGIS MAGNI BRITANORVM 

COLLEGIVM FABRORVM ET QVI IN EO 

A. S. SVNT D. S. D. DONANTE AREAM 

PVDENTE PVDENTINI FILIO. 

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The stone is of grey Sussex Marble, and seems to have 
been about six feet long by two feet and three quarters 
broad, the letters beautifully and exactly drawn, and three 
inches high. Near the spot where it was found, at the 
depth of four feet, the remains of two stone walls, three 
feet thick, and forming an angle were also discovered, 
probably part of the Temple to which this stone relates. 
On either side of it are statues of Neptune and Minerva, 
and above a head inscribed Claudius Cogidubnus.* 

In the centre of the wood is an artificial glen, repre- 
senting the scene of an Earthquake, with the ruined wall 
of an Abbey or Chapel. The introduction of such at- 



health and preservation of the Imperial Family, by the authority of 
King Cogidubnus the Lieutenant of Tiberius Claudius Augustus in 
Britain. The company of Artificers, with those who were ambitious of 
the honour of supplying materials, defrayed the expence, — Pudens, 
the son of Pudentinus gave the ground. 

The City of Chichester was formerly a Roman station ; and there 
is little doubt that the present walls occupy the scite of those built 
by the Romans, and that the plan of the City, with but little altera- 
tion, remains exactly as it was when they had possession of Britain. 

*Tacitus tells us several cities were given to King Cogidubnus after 
the success of Aulus Plautius and Ostorius Scapula under Claudius for 
his fidelity to the Romans ; and according to the Roman custom he here 
takes the name of his patron, and styles himself Tib. CI. Cogidubnus 
King and legate of the emperor in Britain. By his order a college or 
company of artists or mechanics like those on Vitalis's epitaph at Bath 
under which denomination were included several sorts of workmen 
together, dedicated this spot to Neptune and Minerva, the one the 
sovereign of the sea, which perhaps came up to the walls of the station? 
the other the patroness of arts.' 7 



158 GOODWOOD. 

tempts is at all times a matter of doubtful taste, and in 
the immediate vicinity of groves and highly cultivated 
garden scenery, its propriety is more than questionable. 
If the idea of its being artificial can be lost in the cre- 
ation of wildness and solitude, the object is fully an- 
swered ; but if, as is generally the case, the work of man 
is visible, where nature alone could produce the desired 
effect, the result can hardly fail to be poor and indiffer- 
ent. In the present instance however, the thick foliage 
of the magnificent trees around tends in a great measure 
to keep up the delusion. In the centre is a very fine 
Horse Chesnut. 

Peace ! if thou hast on earth a biding place 

'Tis surely mid this Solitude's deep shades, 
Where Nature's worshipper may fondly trace 

Scenes which thy holiest influence pervades. 
The Sabbath, with its silence and repose, 

Now calmly reigns, and to the pensive mind 
Imparts a healing balm for all the woes 

That flesh inherits. Oh tis sweet to find 
Amid life's waste a resting place like this, 

Where care and grief and pain may sleep awhile 
And infelt Joy assume her sweetest smile. 

Thus heaven vouchsafes a foretaste of its bliss, 
Thus graciously refines and fits the heart 

To act, whate'er our fate, its destined part. 

Charles Crocker. 

Adjoining the ruins is an Hermitage, before the door 
of which is placed an open stone coffin. Beneath are 
various subterraneous walks, intended to have been ap- 



GOODWOOD. 159 

propriated, at least such is the tradition, to the sole use 
of the solitary being who was to have tenanted the lonely 
spot. 

Not far removed is the Orangery, which, although an 
ample building is not well calculated for the object to 
which it is applied : it contains, nevertheless a good -col- 
lection of trees. The parterre in front is very pleasing: 
it is judiciously laid out in flower beds, and entirely sur- 
rounded by lofty trees whose different forms and colors 
blending with, and receding behind each other make up 
a delightful retreat. 

In another part of the plantation is the Dairy, an ele- 
gant little building, tastefully and completely fitted up ; 
attached to it is a refreshment room, open to the grounds 
and representing the interior of a gothic temple, the roof 
is formed of carved oak and the buttresses which sup- 
port it are terminated by figures bearing shields, on 
which are emblazoned the arms of Lennox, Kerouaile, 
Brudenal, and Cadogan ; the windows are of colored 
glass. We cannot however but express a regret that it 
is in a state of delapidation, a very trifling expense, and 
a little care would yet arrest the hand of time, but they 
must be promptly applied or neglect will have done its 
work. The garden in front of the Dairy is devoted to 
the raising of plants and shrubs to feed the flower beds 
of the ornamental Gardens. 

Throughout the whole of these extensive grounds, 



160 GOODWOOD, 

there is certainly one leading defect— the absence of a 
general plan, by which the various parts — each beautiful 
in itself — might be so assimilated and connected as to 
form a magnificent and harmonious whole. There are 
man y scenes of surpassing beauty, but they do not 
improve each other; the noble avenue of chesnuts — 
the plantations of the Orangery — the flower Garden — 
the Hermitage — are all distinct and unconnected fea- 
tures.* 

In the Park and High Wood many of the timber and 
ornamental trees are well worthy of notice. They con- 
sist principally of Cedar, Beech, American Oak, Larch, 
Fir, Lime, Tulip, Cyprus, Plane, and Chesnut. The 
woods are very extensive and consist of Beech, Larch, 
Spruce and Scotch Fir, the three latter however are fast 
disappearing, and before many years the Beech will alone 
remain. The whole of the plantations were formed by 
the third Duke. 

On the 2nd. October l759,f twenty fine Magnolias 
were planted around the house, of these, two were 
twenty feet high, the largest seventeen inches in circum- 

*" There is no grand walk proceeding from the house through the 
scenery. Whatever may be the beauties of a residence they are lost 
without this master-walk, which operates as a leading principle to 
guide in the emplacement and character of all the details. ''—Loudon . 

t From a MS. note in the handwriting of Peter Collinson, on the 
back of the print of the Magnolia Grandiftora, in Catesby's Natural 
History of South Carolina, in the wainscot Library. 



GOODWOOD, 161 

ference and the other fourteen and a half inches, mea- 
sured about four inches above the ground. There now 
remain but two, one in front of the Orangery, and ano- 
ther in the high wood. The latter is fast decaying, and 
an unfavorable situation, surrounded by tall forest trees 
will soon complete its destruction ; the trunk is hollow 
and partly gone, but its circumference when perfect, 
four feet, ten inches, may be accurately ascertained, its 
height is about thirty five feet. 

The cedars (Pinus CedrusJ are the greatest ornament 
of Goodwood. We learn from a MS. memorandum 
written on the titlet of Miller's Gardener's Dictionary in 
the Library, that "in 1761 the Duke of Richmond 
planted one thousand Cedars of Lebanon,* four years old, 
procured for him by his friend, Peter Collinson, the Duke 
being then twenty six years old. About fifty were 
planted between the two roads that lead, the one from 
Rook's Hill's gate, the other from the pond on Har- 
roways, towards the Swan's pond. These fifty are 
planted at the junction of these two roads, not far from 
the wall with brick piers. About two hundred more 
were put in the same plantation about yards south 



* Of these, one hundred and thirty-nine only are remaining, in the 
following positions — Goodwood Park 36 — Road to Molecomb 62 — 
Garden Coppice 10 — Paddock near the Valdoe 4 — Waterbeach Gar- 
den 1— Halnaker Farm near the Mortar Mile Cottage 1 — High 
Wood 25— Total 139. 



162 GOODWOOD. 

of the door in the wall called the — door. About 

fifty more were put in the same plantation, at the head 
of the Warren bottom. Two or three hundred were 
put in the plantation west of the new kitchen and 
and flower garden ; the remainder were dispersed in the 
clumps in the park and at Molecomb.*" 

In the sacred writings we find frequent mention made 
of the Cedar. " The voice of the Lord breaketh the 
Cedars of Lebanon/ 5 "The righteous shall flourish like 
a palm tree, and spread abroad like a Cedar of Lebanon." 
"Behold" says the Prophet Ezekiel " the Assyrian was 
a Cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a 
shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top 
was among the thick boughs. His boughs were multiplied 
and his branches became long. The fir trees were not 
like his boughs, nor the chesnut trees like his branches, 
nor any tree in the garden of God like unto him in 
beauty." 

The expression, his top was among the thick branches 
is singularly expressive ; in cedars the leading branch 
continues to spire above the rest, till the tree has at- 
tained its full size, it then becomes what is now termed 
clump-headed or in the metaphorical language of the East, 
its top is among the thick branches, and this is the state 

* Molecomb is a pretty villa in Goodwood park, situated at the 
head of one of the valleys : it was till lately the residence of Lord 
George Lennox. 



GOODWOOD. 163 

in which they are most perfect and beautiful. Many of 
the trees at Goodwood have reached their full growth, at 
least the highest perfection which they ever attain in 
this climate. The finest tree is in a paddock near the 
dog kennels, it measures in circumference nineteen feet, 
at about four feet from the ground, and just above where 
the first branch shoots, upwards of twenty five feet. 
Opposite the house, near Waterbeach, are several 
others, two of which are eighteen feet ; one, eighteen 
feet six inches ; and a fourth seventeen feet six in cir- 
cumference, their height varies from fifty to sixty feet ; 
some of the principal limbs exceed ten feet in circum- 
ference. 

The Beech flourishes here and attains to a very large 
size, and very many might be selected as remarkable 
specimens ; opposite the Entrance to the Stables is a 
very fine one, measuring at four feet from the ground 
eighteen feet in circumference. 

There are several varieties of Fir — and those trees 
which grow in detached situations possess much pictu- 
resque beauty. Near the Kitchen gardens is a spruce 
fir, one of the tallest trees in the park. The Scotch fir 
is but little esteemed as a park tree. Gilpin remarks 
" it is a hardy plant and therefore put to every servile 
oflice. If you wish to screen your house from the south 
west wind, plant Scotch firs and plant them close and 
thick. If you want to shelter a nursery of young trees, 



164 GOODWOOD. 

plant Scotch firs, and as the phrase is, you may af- 
terwards weed them out as you please." They are sel- 
dom planted as single trees, or in a judicious group; but 
generally in close compact bodies, in thick array, which 
suffocates them ; and if they ever get loose from this 
bondage, they are already ruined. Their lateral branches 
are gone, and their stems are drawn into poles, on which 
their heads appear, stuck as on a centre. In many parts 
of the Highlands it becomes a majestic tree. — In a val- 
ley near the workshops are several very fine silver firs, 
and at the Orangery a few good Weymouth pines. 

The Tulip Trees and Virginian Oaks were planted in 
the year 1739, of the former there is a very fine speci- 
men in the High Wood, and many others are scattered 
through the plantations. In its native country, it sur- 
passes most other trees in height and in the beauty of 
its foliage. " The perfect straightness and uniform di- 
ameter of its trunk for upwards of forty feet, the regular 
disposition of its branches, the great richness of its foli- 
age, and the grandeur of its odoriferous flowers entitle 
it to be considered one of the most magnificent vege- 
tables of the temperate Zone". 

Of the Oak there are many kinds to be met with here : 
in the gardens in front of the house are three (Quercus 
Suber) Cork trees, evergreens and natives of South Eu- 
rope. They are not common in England. The fungous 
bark produces the true cork ; the leaves are of an oval 



GOODWOOD. 165 

figure with sawed edges, their upper surface is smooth 
and of a strong green color, and their under surface is 
downy. The acorns are longish, smooth, and brown when 
ripe, and of the size and shape of some of our common 
acorns, to which they are so much alike, as not to be 
distinguished when mixed together. In the High Wood 
near the wooden bridge leading to the orchard and 
flower garden is a remarkably fine Austrian or Turkey 
Oak (Quercus cerris). It is distinguished by oblong 
and pointed leaves, jagged, and a little hoary on the 
under side : the acorns have rough, prickly cups. Im- 
mediately surrounding the House and near the stables 
are flourishing Oak plantations, principally Virginian, 
many of the trees being of great height. Sussex has 
been celebrated for its timber, and especially for its oak, 
from the remotest antiquity. Before the Norman Con- 
quest it was one continued forest, and even now it con- 
tains not less than one hundred and eighty thousand 
acres of woodland. The Weald here is every where 
overspread with wood, which is so natural to the soil, 
that if a field were sown with furze only, the ground 
would be covered with young oaks in the course of a few 
years. The quality of the wood is so well known to be 
superior, that the navy contractors have generally stipu- 
lated for Sussex oak in preference to every other kind.* 

* Gilpin— Sir T. Dick Lauder. 



166 GOODWOOD. 

In the High Wood are very luxuriant evergreen Oaks ; 
a Phillyrea of considerable size and beauty; a noble ave- 
nue of Chesnuts, terminated by the statue of a recum- 
bant Lioness; and very many fine specimens of the 
deciduous Cypress. 

A few Plane trees (Platanus Orientalis) are scattered 
through the Park, one opposite the Dog Kennels has 
attained to a very large size and is a picturesque and 
beautiful tree. 

The Gardens of the Library and Conservatory fronts, 
are planned with much taste, and are kept filled by a 
succession of flowering plants. The kitchen Gardens 
are at the extremity of the Park, near the Waterbeach 
Entrance. They are large and surrounded by excellent 
old walls, covered with choice fruit trees, they also con- 
tain a row of very fine fig trees which bear most abun- 
dantly. At the lower end is an immense Tennis Court, 
erected at a very considerable expense, but now out of 
repair: it is occasionally used for the purpose of the 
meetings of the West Sussex Agricultural Association.* 

A commodious Inn at Waterbeach joins the Park ; in 



* We cannot forbear to notice this most excellent Society, which 
has now been in operation for upwards of four years. Its object is 
to encourage meritorious and industrious Agricultural Labourers, of 
both sexes, by offering numerous rewards to such of them as shall in 
their various situations have been distinguished for industry, honesty, 
sobriety and general good conduct. 




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the yard behind the house, is a grove of singularly fine 
Horse Chesnuts. 

The Dog Kennels and the Stables are two of the 
most complete establishments of their kind in England. 
The former is erected on a rising ground, about a 
quarter of a mile from the house. It is in length about 
one hundred and forty-eight feet, the height of the 
centre is twenty-eight feet and of the wings eighteen 
feet, measured from the crown of the arches on which 
it is built. In the construction of the underground 
works extraordinary pains were taken; the reservoir, 
which extends under the whole of the building is ca- 
pable of containing ten thousand hogsheads of water, 
and may be emptied by means of drains with ease and 
rapidity. The distribution of the building is in four 
kennels ; two of them thirty-six feet by fifteen feet, and 
two others, thirty feet by fifteen feet : two feeding rooms, 
twenty-eight feet by fifteen, in each of which is a venti- 
lator at the top, and stoves to warm them in winter, 
or air them in damp weather.* It was erected by the 



* A pack of hounds has not been kept at Goodwood for some year?, 
and the arrangement of the rooms is to a certain extent altered, some 
of them being divided and used as ordinary apartments. But as the 
change is merely temporary, it was considered better to speak of the 
building as it formerly existed, and as it might, and we hope may, 
with very trifling expense, again exist. It is at present occupied by 
Mr. Kent, the Trainer of the Duke's Stud. 



1 68 GOODWOOD. 

third Duke of Richmond, from the designs and under 
the superintendence of James Wyatt. 

The Stables, which are close to the House are a 
handsome quadrangular Building erected from a design 
of Sir William Chambers, by the third Duke of Rich- 
mond, in the early part of his life. They contain, inde- 
pendent of various offices, stalls for fifty-four horses, 
with rooms above for grooms, and stable-keepers. 

The Pheasantry is situated to the north-east of the 
House, and it would be difficult to select a more beau- 
tiful and enchanting scene. It affords a strong proof 
how much a barren and uninteresting spot may be im- 
proved by judicious planting and by the exercise of taste 
and discrimination. It was originally a chalk pit, form- 
ing an amphitheatre, with high and steep banks, except 
on the South, where, from its being dug out on the 
declivity of a hill, it is open, and commands a beauti- 
ful and extensive prospect of the country to the sea. 

The place is surrounded by a wall, but in consequence 
of its being continued to the south along a deep haha, 
the view from within is uninterrupted. The sides are 
planted with evergreens, and cut into paths leading to 
the summit, around which is a turfed walk ; it also 
contains numerous fine trees, among which a cedar tow- 
ers pre-eminent. The Pheasantry as its name denotes is 
applied to the breeding and preservation of rare and va- 
luable birds, which, here in great numbers enjoy a con- 



GOODWOOD. 169 

siderable degree of liberty. The collection of gold and 
silver pheasants is very choice, and perhaps scarcely to 
be equalled in the kingdom ; there are also several spe- 
cies of very fine parrots, parroquets, and cockatoos. In 
the aviary, a long and handsome building to the right, 
are various other foreign birds ; as well as doves, cana- 
ries &c. &c. The surface of the ground at the bottom, 
has been levelled and turfed, and a new pond, well 
stocked with gold and silver fish, has been recently 
added. At the extreme end is a cottage inhabited by 
the keeper, who certainly rejoices in one of the most ro- 
mantic and picturesque abodes, that nature and art ever 
contributed to form. 

Cairney Seat is situated just above the Pheasantry 
and nearly at the summit of the hill. It was erected 
from the materials of the tower of Hove Church, on the 
fall of which they were purchased and applied to their pre- 
sent purpose, and received its name from that of a faithful 
old servant of the family, who in the latter years of his 
life was much attached to the spot. Its situation is un- 
rivalled, and the prospect embraces an immense extent 
of the coasts of Hampshire and Sussex, with the inter- 
vening plains spread out like a panorama beneath. It 
is a small building in the Venetian style and was in- 
tended for an occasional summer retreat. It contains a 
lofty banqueting room, which was originally fitted up in 



170 GOODWOOD. 

a very costly and magnificent manner, most elaborately 
painted and gilt, and with statuary marble chimney 
pieces. Having, however, been suffered to go to decay, 
it underwent a few years since a complete repair, when 
it was divested of all its ornaments and beauty, and fi- 
nished more plainly and substantially. 

By the kindness of the Duke of Richmond, Cairney 
Seat is placed at the disposal of the public, and through- 
out the summer it is much resorted to by the inhabitants 
of Chichester in pleasure parties. Attendance is provid- 
ed ; and the precaution of securing a ticket for the day, 
which may be obtained of the Steward at Goodwood, 
will always provide against disappointment. 

Under the portico at the entrance to the banqueting 
room was the horoscope, or configuration of the Planets 
at the birth of the second Duke of Richmond on the 
18th May, 1701. 

Within the shrubbery is a shell grotto of exquisite 
workmanship, which owes its origin to the taste and per- 
severance of Sarah, second Duchess of Richmond and 
her daughters. It is paved with black and white mar- 
ble, and horses' teeth. Its length, including an alcove is 
fifteen feet, six inches, and the breadth ten feet, six 
inches. Its height from the floor to the crown of the 
arch which forms the ceiling is upwards of eleven feet. 

The greatest care and order have been displayed in the 
disposition of the numerous varieties of shells into com- 



GOODWOOD. 171 

partments and devices ; in the recess are niches fitted 
with mirrors, over and around which are vases and cor- 
nucopias of flowers, all of shell work. The wood-work 
of one portion of the arch has unfortunately fallen, leav- 
ing a blank space, which much deteriorates from its ge- 
neral effect. 

THE SHELL HOUSE. 

Did some enchanter wave his potent wand, 

This beauteous grot to rear by magic spell ? 
Or hath some wonder-working fairy band 

The fabric raised where fitly they might dwell ? 
Alas ! the silent workings of decay, 

Too visible in all around, proclaim 
The work of human hands long pass'd away : 

But by this fair creation known to fame. 
Here day by day the Noble Fair Ones plied 

And saw their work to full perfection grow 
With gladden'd eyes — and haply never sighed 

To think that Time so soon might overthrow 
Their well- wrought task — but Wisdom truly cries ; 
" They build too low who build beneath the skies." 

Charles Crocker. 



ST. ROCHE'S HILL, 

Trundle or Encampment — Barrows — Tumuli — British Villages. 

From the contemplation of these scenes, embellished 
by all the skill and resources of men in the highest state 
of civilization, we turn to a subject no less replete with 
interest — their state when tenanted by the early inhabi- 
tants of this Island in ages, long gone bye. 

The indifferent observer might wander over these 
extensive Downs, nor meet with any object, which would 
attract his slightest notice : but to the enquiring mind, 
there is not an inequality on the surface — there is not 
a hollow, or an elevation which breaks its even round- 
ness — nay, not even a mole-hill, but may convey un- 
questionable proof of the existence of a numerous peo- 
ple whose habits and condition, the evidence afforded in 
these earth-works, assists very materially to illustrate.* 



* In traversing these extensive Downs, our attention is continually 
arrested by the works of the ancient Britons, strong fortresses, circles, 






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GOODWOOD. 1 73 

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There is perhaps no subject which has stronger claims 
on the attention of the Historian and the Antiquary, than 
the careful examination of the relics of the Antient Bri- 
tons — the occupants of this Island 2000 years ago — and 
there is certainly no locality in the whole Island which 
offers a wider, or more fertile field for investigation and 
research, than Sussex, and in fact all those counties, 
through which the range of the chalk hills extends. 
But how interesting soever the enquiry might prove, it 
must of necessity, in these pages, be brief and limited. 

St. Roche's Hill is a fine elevation about a mile from 
Goodwood House : its height above low water mark, is 
702 feet. On the summit is a large circular camp or 
entrenchment of earth-work, including an area of about 
five acres, It has a deep fosse, and an outer and inner 
vallum. The inner vallum is raised to the height of 
about four feet all round the edge of the enclosure, most 



barrows, and other inequalities iu the ground, which are evidently 
contrary to nature. Whoever has studied attentively the formation of 
our chalk hills, will observe, that all maiden downs, by which I mean 
all land untouched by the plough, bears a most even and smooth sur- 
face ; and whenever we find the appearance of that surface altered hy 
excavations and other irregularities, we may there look with a pros- 
pect of success for the habitations of the Britons ; and especially if the 
herbage is of a more verdant hue, and the soil thrown up by the moles 
of a blacker tint. There, on turning up the soil, will be found con- 
vincing proofs of ancient residence, such as animal bones, pottery, 
brick tiles, and coins of the lower Empire. Sir R. C. Hoare. 



174 GOODWOOD. 

probably by the earth taken from the apex of the hill 
which has been levelled to a perfect plane within the 
fortification. The depth of the fosse could not have 
been less than eighteen feet. At present there are two 
entrances, but the original Barbican was on the west side 
only; that on the east is evidently a modern innovation. 
Exactly in the centre are the remains of a cell, now level 
with the ground, the walls of which are composed of 
flints cemented with mortar so very hard, as to render 
them almost immoveable; its size is fourteen feet by 
eleven.* 

It has long been a matter of discussion with the 
learned to what sera and to what people, these rude at- 
tempts at fortification may be attributed. The most 
elaborate account which has ever been given of them 
founded on a persevering and careful investigation, is to 
be met with in the history of Antient Wiltshire by Sir 
Richard Colt Hoare. At the same time we are bound 
to acknowledge that much light has been thrown on the 
subject, so far as relates to Sussex, by the exertions of 
Mr. T. King, an eminent Antiquarian, and a resident 
in Chichester for upwards of 30 years, to whose pencil 

*Mr. King suggests that this might have been the habitation of a 
Monk, and dedicated to St. Roche ; probably, he says, erected on the 
scite of a pagan temple dedicated to the protecting god of travellers 
and of the highways. 



GOODWOOD. 175 

and graver we are indebted for the engravings which 
illustrate this portion of the work.* 

By whom the encampment at St. Roche's Hill was 
first founded, much difference of opinion exists : and it 
has been ascribed by various writers successively to the 
Britons, the Romans, the Danes and the Saxons. 

There have been, however, some general and probable 
rules laid down by Sir R. C. Hoare, for ascertaining in 
some degree by what nation they were originally formed. 
When they are found to be irregular in their form, 
single in their construction, and with single and slight 
banks and ditches, they may with certainty be pro- 
nounced of genuine British origin, and the works of an 
ignorant and unskilful people: and when we find in- 
trenchments multiplied and distinguished by the vast- 
ness of their banks, the height of their keeps, and ex- 
treme depth of their ditches, we may suppose them to have 
been the works of a nation better served in the art of 
castrametation. But whenever we meet with works of a 
square or oblong form, such as the fortification on the 
Broile near Chichester, bounded by straight lines, and 
with rounded angles, we may indubitably pronounce them 
to be Roman. There are however numerous instances 



* Mr. King has engraved some highly interesting plates of the 
Antiquities of Chichester Cathedral, unique of their kind, and exe- 
cuted with singular skill and fidelity. 



1 76 GOODWOOD. 

in which the Romans and Danes occupied and improved 
the imperfect works of the Britons, which is the more 
likely since the latter always selected for their stations, 
elevated, dry and salubrious spots. 

That the first settlement at St. Roche's Hill was an- 
terior to the Romans there can be little doubt. From 
the strength and regularity, however, of the ramparts and 
fosse it would certainly seem that it was not raised as we 
now see it by the Antient Britons. On the other hand 
the Danes were an unsettled, wandering nation, seldom 
remaining long enough in one place to enable them to 
undertake and complete such extensive works ; while all 
around the proofs that the Britons had fixed their habi- 
tations on these Downs prior to this erection are abun- 
dant and unquestionable. And the fact that in the moun- 
tainous districts of Wales, where the Danes and Saxons 
were never known to penetrate, similar military works 
are to be ' found, strongly corroborates the opinion that 
these people never raised, although they might have oc- 
cupied them. In the absence, then, of all positive data, 
it appears most probable that St. Roche's Hill was an 
antient British station taken possession of, enlarged, and 
more strongly fortified by the Romans. 

Although the camp at St. Roche's hill, from its mag- 
nitude and prominent situation, has thus claimed our 
first notice, there are indications of the antient Britons 







SECTION" of a BARROW 




"Xing sculp Chichatrs 



ANCIENT BRITISH HABITATIONS ON BOW HILL 



GOODWOOD. 177 

of much earlier date to be met with on these Downs, in 
the Barrows or Tumuli, which are so numerously scat- 
tered around. That these mounds of earth were fune- 
real has been clearly and satisfactorily proved — and that 
they were raised prior to the invasion of the Romans can 
scarcely be doubted. 

The most simple and natural kind of sepulchral mo- 
nument, and what appears to have been the most antient 
and universal, consists of a mound of earth or heap of 
stones raised over the remains of the deceased, and this 
custom appears to have obtained among the earliest na- 
tions of antiquity ; the obsequies of Patroclus are thus 
described in the twenty-third book of the Iliad ; 

" The Greeks obey ! where yet the embers glow, 
Wide o'er the pile the sable wine they throw, 
Next the white bones his sad companions place, 
With tears collected in a golden vase, 
The sacred relics to the tent they bore, 
The urn a veil of linen covered o'er, 
That done, they bid the sepulchre aspire, 
And cast the deep foundations round the pyre ; 
High in the midst they heap the swelling bed 
Of rising earth, memorial of the dead." 

The custom of burying the body entire was the most 
primitive, that of reducing it to ashes was of later intro- 
duction : both were in use among the Greeks and Ro- 
mans, and we have every reason to believe that among 
the antient Britons both prevailed at the same time. 




178 GOODWOOD. 

The annexed engraving represents the four largest 
Tumuli on these Downs; they are on the summit of the 
hill which forms that beautiful valley called Kingly Bot- 
tom, and may be seen for a distance of many miles. 
They are circular in their form, constructed with great 
regularity and composed of alternate strata of flint and 
earth. Nos. 1, 2, and 4 present slight appearances of 
having been injudiciously, and therefore, as to results, 
unsuccessfully opened ; these three have also each a 
vallum at their base. The exterior of these curious and 
interesting monuments presents no appearances by 
which we may be enabled to draw any inference by 
whom, or even for what purpose they were raised. A 
careful examination of their contents, however, will at 
once remove the doubt, and with this view numbers of 
them have been opened, many in Sussex, but by far the 
greater part in Wiltshire ; in all, the result has been the 
same, and establishes the fact of their origin and object 
most fully, viz. that they were monuments raised over 
the dead, by the Inhabitants of this Island before the in- 
vasion of the Romans. No 5 shews the section of an 
open Tumulus ;* the body was placed entire, with the 



*This section, the sketch of which was supplied by Mr. King 
gives us an excellent idea of the ancient mode of burial : it points 
out the cist for the primary interment, also the cist for the urns, 
sometimes placed at the end of the Tumuli, and not unfiequently, if 
an after deposit, a little way below the surface. 



, 



GOODWOOD. 179 

legs gathered up, in an excavation, or as it is termed, 
cist, covered with chalk or flints, and the mound raised 
over it : this was the primary interment. When the 
body was first burnt, the ashes were collected together, 
put into an urn and buried, the mouth covered with a 
tile being placed downwards, either in the cist, or as is 
the case in the present instance on one side of it. 
These urns are composed of very coarse materials, rudely 
formed, before the use of the lathe was known, and in 
many instances very imperfectly baked: the patterns 
with which they are ornamented display a great variety 
of design, and are evidently worked by hand, not by 
a mould. They seem to be indented on the clay when 
in a moist state, by some pointed instrument, and to 
have been baked either in the sun, or the fire of the fu- 
neral pile. Such, without exception, have been the 
urns found in our Barrows ; all claiming a rude and re- 
mote British origin. After the Roman conquest a new 
species of pottery was introduced among the Britons, 
beautifully moulded, finely glazed and richly ornamented, 
numerous fragments of which are to be found in all the 
villages of the Romanized Britons, but not the smallest 
morsel, neither a coin, nor a letter, nor in fact the 
slightest indication of a Roman population in these 
Tumuli.* 

Having thus hastily noticed the resting places of the 

* The extreme rudeness of our sepulchral urns, as well as the 



ISO GOODWOOD. 

dead; we will bestow a few words on the habitations of 
the living. We have, says Sir. R. C. Hoare, undoubted 
proofs from history, and from existing remains, that the 
earliest habitations were pits, or slight excavations in 
the ground, covered and protected from the inclemency 
of the weather, by boughs of trees, or sods of turf. The 
high grounds were pointed out by nature, as the fittest 
for these early settlements, being less encumbered by 
wood, and affording a better pasture for the numerous 
flocks and herds , from which the erratic tribes of the 
first colonists drew their means of subsistence; but 
after the conquest of our island by the Romans, when, 
by means of their enlightened knowledge, society became 
more civilized, the Britons began to quit the elevated 
ridge of chalk hills, and seek more sheltered and desira- 
ble situations. At first, we find them removed into the 
sandy vales immediately bordering on the chalk hills ; 
and at a later period, when the improved state of society 
under the Romans ensured them security, the vallies 
were cleared of wood, and towns and villages were 
erected in the plains near rivers, which after the depar- 
ture of the Romans, became the residence of the Saxons. 
But a considerable period must have elapsed before these 
important changes took place, for on our bleakest hills 



articles deposited within our Barrows, evidently prove their very 
high antiquity, and mark them of an sera prior to the Roman In- 
vasion, Sir R. C. Hoare, 



GOODWOOD. 181 

we find the luxuries of the Romans introduced into the 
British settlements, flues, hypocausts, stuccoed and paint- 
ed walls, &c. &c. Yet not a single inscription has ever 
been discovered in any one of these British Villages, 
that can throw any positive light on the sera in which 
they flourished, or were deserted for a more temperate 
and less exposed climate. 

On the declivity of the hill, which forms the Eastern 
side of Kingly Vale, are a number of these excavations 
in the chalk. They vary in depth from two to four and 
five feet ; a bank towards the valley seems to have been 
raised by the chalk and flints thrown out, the mounds 
between them are also formed by the same cause, and 
there are evidently paths or causeways leading into 
two of them. A sketch has been taken of them by Mr. 
King (No. 6, plate). No attempts have ever been made 
to examine them, nor have there ever been, so far as we 
can ascertain, any relics found among them, which 
afford proof of their origin. The supposition, therefore, 
that they must have been a British Village is founded on 
the following facts — that these Downs were a station of 
the antient Britons — that in other parts of the range si- 
milar spots exist which have been carefully examined 
and have afforded undeniable evidence of the use to 
which they were put — and that setting aside this appli- 
cation of them, it is impossible to assign any reason what- 
ever for their original formation. 



GOODWOOD RACES 

Were established in 1802. In the spring of the pre- 
vious year however, a meeting was arranged by the 
members of the Goodwood Hunt, and the Officers of the 
Sussex Militia. In the Sporting Magazine for April 
1801, is the following notice "the new Race Course on 
the Harroway, near Goodwood, the seat of his Grace the 
Duke of Richmond, is now completely formed for sporty 
and much admired by the acknowledged amateurs of the 
turf." 

The following appears in a newspaper published at 
Chichester, May 5th. 1S02. *. * * "to 

the efforts of equestrian skill, is to be added the princely 
and almost unprecedented munificence of the Noble 
Founder of the Goodwood Races, hi providing the new 
erected race stand with a collation which might be en- 
titled a general refrigarium, for the access was as easy as 
the reception was elegant and hospitable," * 



GOODWOOD. 183 

" the thanks of the county in general, and of this city 
and its vicinity in particular, are largely due to His Grace 
the Duke of Richmond, for having thus munificently and 
liberally instituted an establishment of most material lo- 
cal benefit in every point of view, both as a source of 
pecuniary advantage to the inhabitants, and as a means of 
forwarding to notice, and increasing the consequence of 
this western part of the county ! We can only add our 
wish that the illustrious founder may for many years en- 
joy in health and happiness, this promising scion, planted 
by his own hand, a wish in which we shall be joined by 
all true Sussex Patriots. " 

Considerable alterations and improvements have been 
made in the Course at various times, but more especially 
in 1829-30, and it is now surpassed by none in the king- 
dom. To the exertions of the present Duke of Rich- 
mond the celebrity which these Races have now obtained 
is entirely owing, and the extraordinary increase in the 
value and number of the stakes, compared with former 
years, will sufficiently attest the high estimation in 
which they are held. The new Grand Stand was open- 
ed in 1830, it is an elegant and commodious building, 
erected from a design by G. Draper, Esq. of Chichester. 
It stands on an elevation, forming a terrace, finely turfed, 
from which an excellent view of the whole Course may 
be obtained; it occupies an area of one hundred and 
twenty feet by seventy feet, and is fifty feet high from 



184 GOODWOOD. 

the ground to the lead flat of the betting stand. On the 
ground floor there are two large refreshment rooms, 
weighing room, and other offices. The first floor — ap- 
proached by two large staircases — is occupied by retiring 
rooms and a refreshment room ninely-six feet in length; 
and immediately above this is the Ladies Stand, ninety- 
six feet in length and forty feet in width, which being 
formed in a series of raised benches is capable (without 
crowding, or the least obstruction to a full view of the 
Course) of containing six hundred persons : this room is 
also accessible from the flat of the Doric Colonade which 
surrounds the building and is ascended by separate stone 
staircases on the outside. On the third floor is another 
refreshment room principally for the use of gentlemen 
who occupy the betting Stand and through which they 
have egress thereto. The Stand when filled, is capable 
of containing nearly three thousand persons. 

For convenience of reference, the following account 
of the Races, including the names, value and winners 
of the different Stakes, from 1802 to 1838, has been 
added. 



THE NAMES, VALUE, AND WINNERS, 

Of all the Stakes at Goodwood Races from their Establishment 
in 1802 to 1838. 

1802. WEDNESDAY APRIL 28, 29, 30. 

Hunting Club Subscription of 20 gs. — 5 sub. — won by Mr. 
Newbery's b. g. Pantagruel by Driver 105/. 

Match — Mr. Humphry's Chip by Pilbox beat Mr. Trew's 
b. m. Flirtilla 501. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — Gent. Riders — 8 sub. — won by 
the Duke of Richmond's b. h. Cedar by Gay 84/. 

Hunters' Plate — Gent. Riders. — won by Mr. Gage's Eleva- 
tion, by an Arabian 50/. 

Match — Mr. Byndloss' b. g. Sir Simon beat Duke of Rich- 
mond's b. h. Goodwood 52/. 10s. 

City of Chichester's Plate — won by Mr. Bullock's b. c. Giles 
by Trumpator 50/. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — 7 sub. — Earl of Egremont's ch. 
h. Bobtail, by Precipitate, walked over 73/. 10s. 

Ladies' Plate — won by Mr. Ladbroke's ch. h. Mystery 
by Woodpecker 63/. 

Sweepstakes of 20 gs. each — Gent. Riders, — 3 sub.— won by 
Mr. Dupre's br. g. Glow-worm 63/. 

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Match— Mr. Byndloss' Sir Simon reed. ft. from Duke of 
Richmond's You-know-me 52/. 10s. 

City of Chichester's Plate— won by Mr. Ladbroke's eh. h. 
Mystery 50/. 

Match — Mr. Dearling's gr. m. by Curricle beat Mr. Trew's 
b. m. Flirtilla 507. 

Hunter's Plate— Gent. Riders— won by Duke of Richmond's 
gr. h. You-know-me 507. 

Match — Prince of Wales' Rebel by Trumpator beat Duke 
of Richmond's Cedar 105/. 

Match — Major Maxwell's br. g. Charles beat Gen. Lennox's 
gr. m. Eliza — rode by owners 52/. 10s. 

Maiden Plate — won by Sir C. Burrell's High-over 50/. 

Money given 313 

Amount of Stakes 325 10 

Matches 362 10 

Total £1001 



1803. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 21, 22. 

Sweepstahes of 20 gs. each — 6 sub — won by Lord Egremont's 
brother to Shoveller 126/. 

Hungers' Plate — Gent. Riders — won by Sir G. Thomas's 
ch. m. Matrannee, 63/. 

Match — Mr. Ladbroke's Alchymist beat Mr. Byndloss's 
Garnerin 52/. 10s. 

Match — Mr. Byndloss's Giles beat Duke of Richmond's 
Cedar 52/. 10s. 

City Plate — won by Mr. Durand's Sir Sidney 50/. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each for horses bred in Sussex — 6 sub — 
wonjby Lord Egremont's ch. f. Trinadada 63/. 

City Plate — w by Mr. Durand's ch. c. Morgan Ratler 50/. 

Handicap Plate — won by Mr. Hyde's Skyrocket 50/. 

Ladies' Plate— won by Mr. Byndloss's Giles 63/. 



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Match — Mr. Byndloss's Garnerin beat Sir G. Thomas' 
Leader 52/. 10s. 

Match — Gen. Lennox's Shark beat Mr. Dupre's Glow- 
worm 52/. 10. 

Money given, 276?.— Stakes 1897.— Matches 210/.— Total 675/. 

1804. FRIDAY, APRIL, 13. 

Plate—won by Mr. Ladbroke's Rumbo 50/. 

Cup for Hunters — won by Col. Crosbie's Cceur de Lion 50/. 
Ladies' Plate — won by Mr. Abbey's ch. f. Margery 63/. 

Money given 163/. 

1805. WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 9. 

Hunters' Plate — won by the Duke of Richmond's You- 
know-me 52/. 10s. 

Goodwood Club Subscription — Gent. Riders — won by Mr. 
BurrelPs ch. g. Einaldo : 52/. 10s. 

Skirter's plate — won by Duke of Richmond's Rolla. . . . 50/. 

Hunters 7 Plate — won by Major Pigot's br, g. Black 
Dick 52/. 10s. 

Handicap Plate— won by Mr. W. Burrell's Rinaldo. . . 50/. 

Ladies' Plate — won by Mr. Martin's Enchantress 63/. 

Money given, 168/.— Stakes, 152/. 10s.— Total, 320/. 10s. 



1806. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30. MAY 1. 

Goodwood Club Plate — Gent. Riders — won by Mr. Burrell's 
Quill-driver 52/. 10s. 

Hunters' Plate — won by Gen. Crosbie's Cceur de Lion. 50/. 

Goodwood Club Plate (2nd.) — won by Gen. Lennox's 
Bayard 52/. 10s. 

Ladies' .Plate — won by Lord Egremont's ch. c. Cerberus by 
Gohanna , .63/. 



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Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 gs. each — 3 sub — won by Capt. 
Hartley's br. g. Sowerby 63Z. 

Money given, 218/.— Stakes, 63Z.— Total, 281Z. 



1807. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 7, 8. 

Hunters' Plate — won by Mr. Gage's Comet 50Z. 

Sweepstakes of 5 gs. each, with 20 added — 8 sub. — won by 
Mr. Dickins's Watery 631. 

Goodwood Club plate— -by subscription of 10 gs. each — 7 sub. 
won by Sir H. Lippencott's Mirror 731. 10s. 

Hunters' plate — won by Mr. Gage's br. g. Pic Nic .... 501. 

Ladies' plate — won by Lord Egremont's brother to Cardinal 
Beaufort, by Gohanna 631. 

Sweepstakes of 5 gs. each — Gent. Eiders — 11 sub. — won by 
Mr. Dickins's Watery 57Z. 15s. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's c. by the Barb, beat Major 
Coffin's ch. g. Sir Ferdinand 52Z. 10s. 

Match— Mr. Rush's b. h. by St. George beat Mr. Cripp's 
Venus 52Z. 10s. 

Match— Mr. Rush's b. h. by St. George beat Mr. Cripp's 
Ranger 52Z. 10s. 

Money given, 184?.— Stakes, 173Z. 5s.— Matches, 157Z 10Z. 
Total, 514Z. 15s. 



1808. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 11. 

Hunters' plate — won by Mr. Gage's Pic Nic 50Z. 

Silver Cup — by subscription of 10 gs — Gent. Riders — 13 sub 
won by Mr. Trevanion's b. h. Bucephalus by Alexander 136Z. 10s. 

Hunters' plate — won by Mr. Gage's Pic Nic 50Z. 

Ladies' plate — won by Lord Egremont's ch. c. by Go- 
hanna 63Z. 

Money given, 163Z.— Stakes, 136Z. 10s.— Total, 299Z. 10s. 



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1809. WEDNESDAY, MAY, 10, 11. 

A Silver Cup — by subscription — won by Mr. Trevanion's b. 
h. Bucephalus by Alexander 52/. 10s. 

Hunters 7 plate — won by Duke of Richmond's Rosewood, by 
Goodwood, out of Active 50/. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each, with 25 added — 3 sub. — won by 
Mr. Bouverie's br. c. Red Cross Knight, by St. George 571. 15s. 

Ladies' plate — Mr. Croft's Hippomenes walked over. . . .63?. 

Match — Mr. Newnham's br. m. Miss Danny, reed. ft. from 
Mr. Best's ch. m. Carnival 26/. 5s. 

Handicap plate — won by Duke of Richmond's ch. g. Rose- 
wood 50/. 

Money given, 1891. 5s.Stakes, 841— Matches, 261. 5s. —-Total, 2991. 10. 



1810. THURSDAY, MAY 31, JUNE 1. 

Silver Cup — by subscription of 10 gs — Gent. Riders — Mr. 
Trevanion's b. h. Bucephalus by Alexander walked over 52/. 10s. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each, with 25 added — 2 sub. — Mr. 
Burgh's b. h. Whistle-jacket, by Kite, walked over .... 47/. 5s. 

Hun+ers J Plate — won by Mr. Joliffe's ch. c. Silvermere 
by Gouty 50/. 

Handicap Plate — won by Mr. Burgh's Whistle-jacket 50/. 

Ladies' Plate, by sub. of 10 gs. with 30 added — 3 sub — Lord 
Egremont's ch. h. Election by Gohanna walked over 63/. 

Money given, 157/. 15s.— Stakes, 105/.— Total, 262/. 15s. 



1811. THURSDAY. MAY 23, 24. 

Hunter's Plate — Lord Egremont's b. h. Skiddaw by Go- 
hanna, out of Catherine, walked over 50/. 

Plate — given by Lord Egremont — won by Mr. Richardson's 
ch. f. by Castrel ...,.,,,.., 50/. 



190 GOODWOOD. 



The Goodwood Stakes of 10 gs. each, h. ft. with 25 added— 
Mr. Newnham's g. h. St. Andrew, walked over— 4 sub.. .68/. 5s. 

Farmers' Plate won by Mr. Pope's Jeremy 507. 

Handicap Plate— won by Mr. Cross's Stripling 507. 

Ladies' Plate — won by Lord Egremont's b. c. by Gohanna 
out of Carthage (winner claimed for 300gs.) 527. 10s. 

Match— Mr. Burgh's Ormond beat Mr. Richardson's Cot- 

tre11 527. 10s. 

Match— Mr. Pope's Jeremy bt. Mr. Cross's Stripling 521. 10s. 

Match— Mr. Burgh's Ormond beat Mr. Cope's Strip- 
ing 521. 10s. 

Money given, 2781. 15s.— Stakes, 42Z.— Matches, 1571 101. 
Total, 4787. 5s. 



1812. MONDAY, MAY 4, 5. 



Sweepstakes of 50 gs. each — 3 sub — won by Mr. Newnham's 
Bobtail, dam by Dungannon, out of a sister to Noble. .1577. 10s. 

Gold Cup, by sub. of 10 t gs. each — won by Mr. Cope's Shoe- 
strings by Teddy — 11 sub 1157. 10s. 

Goodwood Club Stakes — 10 gs. each with 25 guineas added — 
Gent. Riders — won by Mr. Burgh's b. f. Charlotte by Teddy — 5 
sub 787. 15s. 

Match — Mr. Cope's Turtle by Gohanna rec. ft. from Mr. 
Joliffe's Farmington 367. 15s. 

Ladies' Plate — won by Mr. Radcliffe's Smallhopeby Ham- 
bletonian 527. 10s. 

Match— Mr. Hill's Claret by Barnaby beat Mr. Burgh's 
Charlotte 527. 10s. 

Match — Mr. Burgh's Hylas by Beningbrough beat Mr. 
Hill's Claret 527. 10s. 

Money given, 787. 15s. — Stakes, 3257. 10s. — Matches, 1417. 15s. 
Total, 5467. 



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1813. 



Gold Cap— by sub. of 10 gs. each — 11 sub. — won by Mr. 
Biggs' s Comerton by Hambletonian 115/. 10s. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — 6 sub. — "won by Mr. Bigg's 
Comerton 63/. 

Goodwood Club Stakes —by subscription of 10 gs. with 25 ad- 
ded — 6 sub. — Mr Shaw's ch. h. Gundy — walked over 89/. 5s. 

Ladies' Plate— won by Mr. Shaw's Gundy 52/. 10s. 

Money given, 78/. 15s.— Stakes, 241Z. 10s.— Total, 320/. 5s. 



181ft. WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 21. 

Gold Cup — by sub. of 10 gs. each — 12 sub — won by Mr. 
Blake's Banquo by Sancho .'.126/. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — Gent. Riders — 8 sub. — won by 
Mr. Mitford's Sir Solomon, out of Miss Rose by Sir Peter. .84/. 

Goodwood Club Stakes — by sub. of 10 gs. each with 25 added 
Gent. Riders — won by Mr.Newnham's Cambrian, 5 sub — 78/. 15s. 

Ladies' plate — won by Sir. J. Cope's gr. g. Albany by Giles 
50/. 

Match — Mr. Newnham's "Wilmington rec. ft. from Mr. 
Jolliffe's Hidley 26/. 5s. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — 8 sub — won by Lord Egremont's 
b. c. Fun by Gohanna 84/. 

Match— Mr. Scott Stonehewer's Sweet Willy O beat Mr. 
Kingston's Woodlark 52/. 10s. 

Hunters' Stakes of 10 gs. each — 6 sub. — won by Mr. Newn- 
ham's Cambrian 68/ . 

Match — Mr. Kingston's Leipsig beat Mr. Fitzgerald's Ly- 
sander 52/. 10s. 

Plate- — won by Mr. Purling' s br. h. Pembroke by Worthy 
50/. 

Money given, 126/. 5s— Stakes, 409/. 10s.— Matches, 131/. 5s. 

Total, 667/. 



192 GOODWOOD. 

1815. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 27. 

Maiden Stakes — of 10 gs. each — 6 sub. — Gent. Eiders — won 
by Mr. Gould's b. h. Gobbo by Sir Launcelot 63/. 

Goodwood Club Stakes — by sub. of 10 gs. each, with 25 
added — 6 sub — won by Mr. Kingston's Cambrian 89/. 5s. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — 5 sub. — Mr. Kingston's Cam- 
brian walked over 521. 10s. 

Hunters' Plate — 10 gs. each — 5 sub. — Mr Kingston's Cam- 
brian walked over 521. 10s. 

Produce Stakes — 50 gs. each — 5 sub — won by Lord Egre- 
mont's b. c. Caper by Canopus 2621. 10s. 

Ladies' plate — won by Mr. Walker's Gum Guaiacum. . 50/. 

Cricketer's Stakes — 5 gs. each — 13 sub. — won by Mr. Wal- 
ker's Gum Guaiacum , 68Z. 15s. 

Money given, 76/. 5s.— Stakes, 5621. 5s.— Total, 6387. 10s. 



1816. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 27. 

Match — Mr. Walker's Corsair beat Mr. J. Walker's Brian. 
105/. 

Gold Cup — by sub. of 10 gs. each — 10 sub. — won by Lord 
Egremont's Scarecrow by Canopus 105/. 

Maiden Stakes — 10 gs. each — 5 sub — Mr. Bacon's Guerrilla 
walked over 521 10s. 

Match — Mr. Bacon's Salamanca beat Mr Brown's Cam- 
brian 521. 10s. 

Goodwood Club Stakes — 10 gs. each, with 25 added — 5 sub. 
won by Mr. Gould's Gum Guaiacum 78/. 15 

Match — Mr. J. Walker's Alexander beat Mr. Walker's 
Corsair 52/. 10s. 

Sweepstakes — 50 gs. each — 5 sub — won by Mr. Hoffenden's 
bl. f. Pythoress, by Sorcerer 262/. 10s. 

Sweepstakes — 10 gs. each — 6 sub. — won by Mr. Walker's 
br. h. Alexander by Boaster 63/. 

Ladies' Plate — won by Mr. Bacon's b. g. Salamanca. . .50/. 

Money given, 76/. 5s.— Stakes, 535/. 10s.— Matches, 210/.— 
Total, 821/. 15s. 



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1817. WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 17. 

Sweepstakes — 50 gs. each h. ft. — 5 sub. — Mr. Wyndham's 
gr. c. by Canopus walked over 1571. 10s. 

Goodwood Club stakes — 10 gs. each, with 25 added — 4 sub. 
Gent. Riders — won by Mr. Smith's Pankakon by Dick Andrew 
68/. 55. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — 6 sub. — won by Mr. "Walker's 
Alexander 63Z. 

Sweepstakes of 5 gs. each, with 50 added — 4 sub. — won by 
Mr. Walker's Alexander 73Z. 10s. 

Ladies' plate — won by Mr. Gould's b. c. by Walton out of 
Gipsy 50Z. 

Match — Lord March's ch. c. Humes by Goodwood beat 
Lord Apsley's b. g 521. 10s. 

Money given, 128?. 15s. —Stakes, 283Z. 10s.— Match, 527. 10s. 
Total, 464Z. 15s. 



1818. FRIDAY, JULY 31, AND AUGUST 1. 

Sweepstakes of 50 gs. each h. ft. — 5 sub. — Lord Egremont's 
ch. f. Election out of Marianne walked over 157Z. 10s. 



of 10 gs. each — 7 sub. — won by Mr. Dicken- 
son's gr. h. Traveller by Camillus 731. 10s. 

Sweepstakes of 5 gs. each — 5 sub. — with 25 added — won by 
Mr. Mowbray's bl. c. Sidrophal by witchcraft 521. 10s. 

City Plate — won by Col. Graves's br. h. Brush by Rubens 
50Z. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — 5 sub. — won by Lord March's 
Roncesvalles by Skiddaw 52Z. 10s. 

Ladies' Plate, — won by Col. Graves's b. g. Sir Christopher 
501. 

Match — Col. Wyndham's b. g. Gas beat Mr. Dyer's b. c. 
Canoe 52/. 10s. 

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194 GOODWOOD. 



Farmer's Stakes — 5 gs. each, 25 added— 5 sub. — won by 
Mr. Wise's ch. g. Eobin 52/. 10s. 

Money given, 152/. 10s— Stakes, 3361. 10s.— Matches, 527. 10s. 
Total, 541/. 



1819. TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 18. 



Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — 5 sub. — won by Mr. R. Wal- 
ker's bl. f. Gem by Smolensko 52Z. 10s. 

Sweepstakes — 5 gs. each, with 20 added — 6 sub. — won by 
Lord March's Roncesvalles by skiddaw 52/. 10s. 

City Plate — won by Mr J. Walker's Shoe-horn by Teddy 
50/. 

Farmer's Cup — won by Mr. Halsted's b. m. Rose 

Match — Lord March's Roncesvalles beat Mr. Ball's Lus- 
tre 52/. 10s. 

Ladies' Plate— won by Mr. R. Walker's bl. f. Gem. . . 50/. 

Sweepstakes — 10 gs. each — 5 sub. — Gent. Riders — won by 
Major Moray's b. h. The Duke 52/. 10s. 

Handicap Sweepstakes — 5 gs. each, with 20 added — won by 
Mr. J. Walker's Shoe-horn— 6 sub 52/ 10s. 

Money given, 142/.— Stakes, 168/.— Match, 52/. 10s. 
Total, 362/. 10s. 



1820. MONDAY, AUGUST, 21. 22. 

Purbrook Stakes — 15 gs. each, 5 ft. — 6 sub. 3"pd. ft. — won 
by Duke of Richmond's Roncesvalles 63/. 

City Plate — not run, for want of horses. 

Sweepstakes— 5 gs. each — 12 sub. — won by Mr. King's b. g. 
Philip by Sir Paul r 63/. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — 8 sub. — Lord Egremont's gr. c. 
Snowden by Skiddaw walked over 84/. 



GOODWOOD. 195 

Farmer's Plate— won by Mr. Coppard's ch. g. 

Handicap Sweepstakes — 20 gs. each — 3 sub.— Gent. Riders 
won by the Duke of Richmond's Roncesvalles 63/. 

Amount of Stakes, 273Z. 



1821. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 15. 

Purbrook Stakes — 15 gs. each — 5 sub. — won by Duke of 
Richmond's Roncesvalles 47/. 5s. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs. each — 5 sub. — won by Mr. Wynd- 
ham's gr. c. by Gohanna dam by Selim (winner claimed for 
250 gs.) 52/. 105. 

City Plate — won by Col. Wyndhham's b. f. by Whalebone 
out of Margaretta 50/. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's Caroline beat Mr. Hughes 
Waterloo 52/. 10s 

Yeomanry Stakes — won by Mr. Hayllar's ch. m. Sail Dabbs 
beating three others 

Ladies' Plate — won by Duke of Richmond's br. c. Chiches- 
ter by Hyperion 50/. 



? — of 5 gs. each — 10 sub. — Gent. Riders — won by 
Mr. J. Walker's Vanloo by Rubens 52/. 10s. 

Sweepstakes of 5 gs. each — 3 sub. — 50/. added by the City of 
Chichester — won by Col. Wyndham's b. f. by Whalebone 65/. 15s. 

Money given, 150/.— Stakes, 168/.— Match, 52/ 10s. 
Total, 370/. 10s. 



1822. TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 14. 

Purbrook Stakes — 15 gs. each — 7 sub. — 5 ft. — won by 
Duke of Richmond's br. h. Chichester 99/. 15s. 

Sweepstakes of 10 gs each with 80gs added — 5 sub. — won bv 
Mr. Brown's gr. f. 136/. 10s. 

Drove Stakes — 6 gs. eaeh with 10/. added — 7 sub. — won by 
Mr. A. Berkeley's gr. f. Miss Ann 54/. 2s. 



196 GOODWOOD. 



Yeomanry Cavalry Cup — won by Mr. Woodman's Artillery- 
man — beating three others 

Ladies' Plate—won by Mr. T. Jones's gr. c. Legal Tender 
601. 

Waterloo Stakes — 5 gs. each, with 50Z. added — 4 sub. — won 
by Mr. G. Dockeray's br. h. Paint Brush 71Z. 

Forced Handicap Sweepstakes — 6 sov. each, with 30 added — 
4 sub — won by Duke of Richmond's Carbonaro 54Z. 

Match— Mr. Berkeley's Fiddle Faddle beat Mr. T. Jones's 
Sir John 52/. 10*. 

Match — Mr. Berkeley's Fiddle Faddle— reed. ft. from Mr. 
Jones's Legal Tender 26/. 5s. 

Money given, 230Z.— Stakes, 241Z. 7s.— Matches, 78Z. 15s. 
Total, 550Z. 2s. 



1823. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 13. 

Old Goodwood Club Stakes — 20 sov. each, with 80Z. added 
— 15ft. and only 5 if declared, &c. — 15 sub. — won by Lord Egre- 
mont's b. f. Elfrid 215Z. 

Purbrook stakes — 15 sov. each, 5ft — 5 sub — won by Mr. A. 
Berkeley's b. m. Little Mab 45Z. 

Sussex sweepstakes — 10 sov. each with 40 added — 3 sub — 
won by Mr. Whitesides' brother to Antonio 70Z. 

Goodwood stakes — (first year) — 20 sov. each — 3 sub. — won 
by Duke Richmond's gr. f. Dandizette 60Z. 

Sweepstakes — 25 sov. each, 15ft. — 4 sub — won by Lord 
Egremont's Elfrid 80Z. 

Waterloo Stakes — 5 sov. each — 7 sub. — with 40 added by 
the City of Chichester — won by Mr. Whitesides' b. c. brother to 
Antonio ..... 75Z. 

Cocked Hat Stakes — 6 sov each — 9 sub. — Gent. Riders — 
won by Lord G. Lennox's Swindon 54Z. 

Ladies Plate — won by Duke of Richmond's Dandizette 50Z. 

Handicap Sweepstakes — 6 sov each with 20 added by the 
City of Chichester — won by Mr. D. Page's Prosody 50/, 

Money given, 230/.-= Stakes, 469Z.— Total, 699/. 



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1824. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 20. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each, 15 ft. and only 5 if declared 
&c. with 25 added — 16 sub. — won by Lord Verulam's ch. f. Vi- 
tellina by Comus 1601. 

Sweepstakes — 25 sov. each, 15ft. — 3 sub — won by Lord 
Egremont's b. f. Frolic 65/. 

Sussex Stakes — 10 sov. each with 50 added — 5 sub — won 
by Mr. Cockburn's gr. f. Agnes 100Z. 

Purbrook stakes — 15 sov. each, 5ft — 4 sub — won by Mr. 
Fleming's b. h. Blandford 40/. 

Halnaker Stakes — 10 sov. each — 6 sub. —won by Mr. J. 
Mills's b. g. Gossoon 60/. 

Goodwood stakes — (2nd year) — 20 sov. each — 3 sub — Lord 
Egremont's Frolic walker over — claimed for 250 gs 60/. 

Sweepstakes of 5 sov. each — with 50 added by the City of 
Chichester — 5 sub. — won by Duke of Richmond's b. c. Hurly 
Burly 75/. 

Cocked Hat Stakes — 6 sov each — 9 sub. — Gent. Riders — 
won by Mr. Poyntz's ch. m. Olive 54Z. 

Ladies Plate — won by Duke of Richmond's Dandizette 50/. 

Silver Cup — Duke Richmond's gr. g. Pantomime — walked 
over 50/. 

Money given, 225/.— Stakes, 514/.— Total, 739/. 



1825. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 11, 12. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each, with 50 added — 20 sub. — 
won by Lord Egremont's Stumps 260/. 

Cowdray Stakes — 50 sov. each, half ft. — 4 sub. — won by 
Lord Egremont's Partisan 150/. 

Gold Cup — by sub. of 10 sov. each, with 50 added — 6 sub. 
— won by Lord Egremont's Cricketer 110/. 

City Plate — by sub. of 5 sov. each — 5 sub — won by Duke 
of Richmond's Spree 75/. 



198 GOODWOOD. 



Halnaker Cup — by sub. 20 sov. each, 10ft — 4 sub. — Gent. 
Riders — won by Duke Richmond's Pantomime 601. 

Drove Sweepstakes — 15 sov. each, oft — 5 sub. — Duke Rich- 
mond's Pantomime walked over 35Z. 

Cocked Hat Sweepstakes — 6 sov. each — 8 sub. — won by Mr. 
Berkeley's Little Driver 48Z. 

Waterloo Plate — won by Duke Richmond's Spree .... 507. 

Ladies' Plate — added to a sub. of 5 sov. each — 4 sub. — won 
by Duke Richmond's Dandizette 70?. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's The Bouverie, beat Lord W. 
Russell's Selection 501. 

Bognor Plate Handicap — won by Mr. Page's ch. c. Silk- 
worm 50Z. 

Match — Col. Russell's Pantomime beat Col. Berkeley's 
Tom 501. 

Handicap Sweepstakes — 5 sov each with 25 added — 5 sub. 
— won by Duke Richmond's b. f. Phantasma 501. 

Match — Lord G. Lennox's Miss Page beat Mr. T. Jones's 
Mystery 50/. 

Money given, 325Z.— Stakes, 632Z — Matches, 100Z. 
Total, 1057Z. 



1826. TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 16, 17. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each with 50Z. added — 17 sub. — 
won by Lord Egremont's Stumps 225Z. 

Cowdray Stakes — 50 sov. each h. ft. — 5 sub. — won by Duke 
of Richmond's Linkboy 175Z. 

Gold Cup — 10 sov. each — 9 sub. — Lord Egremont's Stumps 
walked over 90Z. 

City Plate — added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each — 5 sub. — 
won by Mr. Brown's Saxon 75Z. 

Drove Stakes — 15 sov. each 5 ft. — 9 sub. — won by Mr Bigg's 
Sunshine 95Z. 

Match — Capt. Locke's Little Driver beat Lord Mount- 
charles' Buckfoot 50Z 



GOODWOOD. 199 



Cocked Hat Stakes — C sov. each — 8 sub. — won by Capt. 
Locke's Little Driver 48/. 

Ladies' Plate — added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each — 8 sub. 
— won by Mr Brown's Saxon 90/. 

Waterloo Plate — won by Mr. Shackel's Charnwood . . . .50/. 

Match — Capt. Locke's Orator rec. ft. from Lord G. Len- 
nox's Interpreter 25/. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's Fitz Pan rec. ft. from Mr. B. 
Hughes' Fairy 25/. 

Stand Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each — 30 ft. — 4 sub. — Duke of 
Richmond's Linkboy walked over 140/. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's Phantasmabeat Capt. Locke's 
Crockery 100/. 

Match— Mr. T. Jones's Robin Adair beat Mr. Payton's Ju- 
bilee 50/. 

Racing Club Handicap Stakes 5 sov. each with 30 added — 
5 sub. — won by Duke of Richmond's Linkboy 55/. 

Duke of Richmond's Cup — for Goodwood Horse Artillery 
— won by Mr. Newman's Shylock 50/. 

Money given, 280/.— Stakes, 813/.— Matches, 250/. 
Total, 1343/. 



1827. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 16, 17. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each with 50 added — 26 sub. — 
won by Duke of Richmond's Miss Craven 360/. 

Cowdray Stakes — 50 sov. each h. ft. — 3 sub. — won by Duke 
of Richmond's ch. f. Starch 125/. 

Sweepstakes of 100 sov. each h. ft. — Duke of Richmond's 
br. f. Gulnare walked over 180/ 

Drawing Room Stakes — 25 sov. each, (17 sub.) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. each, (28 sub.) for 3 years old — won by Mr. 
Scott Stonehewer's Souvenir 705/. 

Gold Cup— 10 sov. each — 11 sub.— won by Duke of Rich- 
mond's Linkboy 110/. 



200 GOODWOOD. 



City Plate — added to a sweepstakes of 51. — 3 sub. — won by 
Mr. Caulfield's Whimper 65/. 

Drove Sweepstakes — 15 sov. each 5 ft. — 9 sub. — won by Mr. 
Biggs's Sunshine 65/. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's Linkboy rec. ft. from Capt. 
Locke's Madame Poki 30/. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's Linkboy rec. ft. from Mr. 
Gates's Womba 50/. 

Sweepstakes of 25 sov. each — 3 sub. — won by Duke of Rich- 
mond's Busk 751. 

Ladies' Plate — added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each — 4 sub 
— won by Lord Mountcharles's b. c. Royal Oak 70/. 

Scrub Cup — 15 sov. each 5 ft. with 20 added — 3 sub. — won 
by Capt Berkeley's ch. f. Edith 55/. 

Cocked Hat Stakes — 6 sov. each — 7 sub. — won by Mr. 
Biggs's Sunshine 42/. 

Racing Club Handicap Stakes — 5 sov. each with 30 added 
—6 sub — won by Mr. A. Berkeley's Logic 54/. 

Waterloo Plate — given by the City of Chichester — won by 
Duke of Richmond's Busk 50/. 

Silver Cup given by the Duke of Richmond — won by Mr. 
Sadler's b. g. Nimrod. . 50/. 

Money given, 300/.— Stakes, 1706/.— Matches, 80/. 
Total, 2086/. 



1828. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 13, 14. 

Goodwood Stakes— %5 sov. each— 20 sub.— Mr. Scott Stone- 
hewer's Souvenir walked over 120/. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's Roundhead beat Mr. Berke- 
ley's Poppy , 50/. 

St. Leger Stakes— -25 sov. each, 15ft.- 9 sub.— won by Mr. 
Molony's Lancastrian 165/. 

City Plate — added to a sweepstakes of 2 sov. each — 5 sub. 
— won by Mr. De Burgh's Sunshine 60/. 

Drove Stakes — 15 sov. each, 5 ft.— won by Mr. De Burgh's 
Sunshine 55/. 



GOODWOOD. 201 



Gold Cup — by sub. of 10 sov. each — 8 sub. — won by Duke 
of Richmond's Miss Craven 80/. 

Drawing Room Stakes — 25 sov. each — (10 sub.) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. each, (22 sub.) for 3 years old — won by Mr. 
Rush's Jenkins * 470/. 

Ladies' Plate — added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each — 4 sub. 
won by Duke of Richmond's Miss Craven 70/. 

Racing Club Handicap Stakes — 5 sov. each, 2 ft. with 30 
added — 5 sub. — won by Mr. Cosby's Logic . . . . ; 55/. 

Waterloo Plate, given by the City of Chichester — won by 
Mr. De Burgh's Sunshine 50/. 

Cocked Hat Stakes — 5 sov. each, with 20 added — 3 sub. — 
won by Mr. Shelly's Charnwood 35/. 

Produce Sweepstakes — 100 sov. h-ft. — 3 sub. — Duke of 
Richmond's Hindostan rec. ft 200/. 

Money given, 200/.— Stakes, 1160/.— Match, 50/. 
Total, 1410/. 



1829. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 13, 14. 



Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each, with 50 added — won by the 
Duke of Richmond's The Alderman 195/. 

St. Leger Stakes — 25 sov. each, 15ft — 12 sub — won by Lord 
Egremont's brother to Lapdog 200/. 

Drawing Room Stakes — 25 sov. each (26 sub) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. each (30 sub.) for 3 years old — won by Lord 
Exeter's br. f. Varna 950/. 

Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each, 30ft. — 6 sub. — won by Lord 
Egremont's b. f. by "W halebone 220/. 

Match — Mr. G. Bulkeley's Crusader rec. ft. from Mr. 
Gardnor's Rubens 50/. 

Produce Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each, h. ft. — 5 sub. — won by 
Duke Richmond's Aranda 175/. 

Match — Mr. Payne's Jungfrau beat Lord Worcester's 
Maresfield 200/. 

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202 GOODWOOD. 



Handicap Sweepstakes — 25 sov each — 5 sub. — won by the 
Duke of Richmond's Miss Craven 125/. 

Gold Cup — 300 sov. each — 180 in specie, and 100 added by 
the City of Chichester, by sub. of 20 sov. each — 19 sub. — won by 
Mr. Delme Radcliffe's Fleur de Lis 480Z. 

Ladles'' Plate — added to a sub. of 5 sov. each 6 sub. won 
by Mr. Greville's Goshawk 80Z. 

Cowdray Stakes — 50 sov. each h. ft. — 4 sub. — Mr. Dickin- 
son's Niger walked over 125Z. 

Match — Mr. Cosby 's Christine rec. ft. from Mr. L. Stevens' 
Nicolo 501. 

Molecomb Stakes — 30 sov. each, h. ft. — 3 sub. — won by the 
Duke Richmond's Convert 75Z. 

City Plate — added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each — 7 sub. 
won by Mr. Gardnor's Emelina 85Z. 

Waterloo Plate — given by the City of Chichester — won by 
Mr. Cosby's Constance ". 50Z. 

Pacing Club Handicap Stakes — 5 sov. each, with 100 added 
by the Duke of Richmond — 5 sub. — won by Lord Worcester's 
Maresfield 125Z. 

Match— Mr. Gully's Trample rec. ft. from Mr. B. Bonds's 
Pegasus 100Z. 

Money given, 400Z.— Stakes, 2485Z.— Matches, 400Z. 
Total, 3285Z. 



1830. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 11, 12. 



St. Leger Stakes— 25 sov. each, 15ft. — 5 sub. — won by Lord 
Egremont's brother to Grampus 95Z. 

Cowdray Stakes — 25 sov. each — 3 sub — won by Mr. Gully's 
Donzelli 75Z. 

Drawing Room Stakes — 25 sov. each (26 sub.) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. each (48 sub.) for 3 year old — won by Mr. 
Maberley's b. c. Erymus, 1 130Z. 

Lavant Stakes — 50 sov. each, 30 ft. — 2 years old — 3 sub. — 
won by Duke of Richmond's Conciliation 150Z. 



GOODWOOD. 203 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each, with 50 added — 56 sub. — . 
won by Mr. Forth's Aaron by Moses 6601. 

Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 25 added by the Innkeepers 
— 7 sub. — won by Mr. Day's Profile by Rubens 601. 

Match — Lord Jersey's Juryman beat Mr. Cosby's Masa- 
niello 100/. 

Ladies' plate — added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each — 4 sub. 
— won by the Duke of Richmond's Rough Robin 101. 

Gold Cup— 300 sov.— 460 in specie, 100 added by the City 
of Chichester (38 sub.) won by His Majesty Geo. IV.'s b. m. 
Fleur de Lis 760Z. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's Confederacy beat Mr. Day's 
Carodori 100Z. 

Produce Sweepstakes — 100 sov. h. ft. — 3 sub — Mr. Rous's, 
Corea rec. ft. — Duke of Richmond's Aranda withdrawn. . 150/. 

Handicap Sweepstakes- 25 sov. each, 15ft. — 4 sub — won by 
Mr. Grant's ch. f. The Balkan, 90Z. 

Waterloo Plate — Gent. Riders— won by Mr. Day's Carodori 
50Z. 

Molecomb Stakes — 50 sov. each, 30 ft. — 6 sub. — won by Mr. 
Forth's b. f. Emilius 200Z. 

Match — Lord W. Lennox's Miss Craven rec. ft. from Mr. 
Codrington's Rembrandt 261. 

Duke of Richmond's Plate — (Handicap) won by the Duke 
of Richmond's Rough Robin 100Z. 

Handicap Sweepstakes — 25 sov., 15ft. — 3 sub. — Capt. 
Bulkeley's Bustle walked over 55Z. 

Members' Plate — (Chichester) won by Lord Egremont's 
Brother to Grampus 50Z. 

Match— Mr. W. Day's Zodiac rec. ft. from Lord W. Len- 
nox's Miss Craven 25Z. 

Money given, 425Z.— Stakes, 3270Z.— Matches, 225Z. 
Total, 3920Z. 

1831. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 17, 18, 19. 

Match— Sir S. Graham's b. c. Turk, 3 yrs. 7st. life, beat 
Capt. Byng's Miss Craven, aged, 8st. 6flS.— 1 mile 50Z. 



204 GOODWOOD. 



Drawing Room Stakes — 25 sov. each, (39 sub.) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. each, (47 sub.) — for 3 yrs. old— won by Mr. 
Sadler's b. f. Delight, by Reveller — 2^ miles 1445/. 

Lavant Stakes— 50 sov. each, 30 ft. — for 2 yrs. old — 13 sub. 
— won by Mr. Greville's br. f. Landgravine, by Waterloo, or 
Smolensko, out of Electress — \ mile 490/. 

Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 25 added by the Innkeepers 
5 sub — won by Mr. Williamson's b. c. Sketch-book, by Rubens 
4 yrs. (winner claimed for £80.) — 1 mile, heats 50/. 

Match — Lord Exeter's ch. c. Antony, by Tramp, 8st. 71b 
beat Capt. Byng's gr. c. Ciudad Rodrigo, 8st. 3lb .both 3 yrs. old 
— li mile 100?. 

Ladies Plate — 50 sov. added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. 
each — 9 sub. — won by Lord Chesterfield's ch. h. Carthusian, by 
Comus, aged, — 1 mile, heats .95/. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each, — 73 sub. — (26 pd. 15/. 32 
pd. 61. each)won by Duke of Richmond's b. f. Conciliation, by 
Moses, 3 yrs., 6st. 121ft.— 2| miles 925/. 

Cowdray Stakes — 25 sov. each — for 2 yrs. old — 3 sub. — won 
by Mr. Pettit's ch. c. Adam Brock, by Blacklock, 8st. 7ife. (win- 
ner claimed for 150/.)— T. Y. C 75/. 

Members' Plate — (Chichester) won by Mr. Cosby's Sketch 
Book, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 71ft. — heats, once round 50/. 

Handicap Stakes — 25 sov. each half ft. — 3 sub. 1 pd. ft — won 
by Lord Worcester's Carthago, by Pioneer, aged, 9st. 101ft. 65/. 

Gold Cup — value 300 sov. the rest in specie — by sub. of 20 
sov. each, with 100 added by the City of Chichester — 37 sub. — 
won by Lord Chesterfield's Priam, 4 yrs. 9st. 51ft. — 2£ miles 740/. 

Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each, for 3 yrs. old — 14 sub. — won by 
Lord Verulam's b. c. Vestris, 8st. 131b.— 1 mile 700/ 

Duke of Richmond's P/#/e(handicap) — won by Capt. Byng's 
gr. c. Ciudad Rodrigo, by Emilius, 3 yrs. 7st. — 1 mile .... 100/. 

His Majesty's Plate — won by Lord Lowther's Midhurst, by 
Whalebone, 3 yrs. 7st. — 3 miles 105/. 

Waterloo Plate — 50 sov. added to a sweepstakes of 10 sov. 
each — 10 sub. — won by Mr. Greville's Adam Brock, 3 year, 
lOst. 71b. (winner claimed for 100/.)— heats T. Y. C 150/ 

Money Given, 480/.— Stakes, 450/.— Matehes,500/,— Total 5190/, 



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1832. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 15, 16, 17. 

Sweepstakes — 100 sov. each, h. ft. for 3 yrs. old — 6 sub. — 
Duke of Richmond's, The Hermit, walked over, — 1 mile. . 350/. 

Lavant Stakes — 50 each, 30 ft. for 2 yrs. old — 10 sub, — won 
by Lord Chesterfield's br. f. Weeper, 8st. 31b.— \ mile 400/. 

Match — Mr. Gardnor's b. c. Tarquin, 8st. 7fl5. beat Mr. 
Vansittart's b. f. Zebra, 8st. 41b.— 1 mi]e 50/. 

Drawing Room Stakes — 25 sov. each (28 sub.) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. eacli (39 sub.) for 3 yrs. old — won by Lord 
Exeter's ch. c. Beiram, 8st. 7fl5.— 2| miles 1090/. 

Sweepstakes — 5 soy. each, with 25 added by the Innkeepers 
— 4 sub. — won by Mr. Dockeray's Rosebud 4 yrs. old, 8st. 4lb. 
• — 1 mile heats 45/. 

Match — 50/. Mr. Gardnor's Tarquin, rec. ft. from Mr. W. 
Day's brother to Interpreter 25/. 



s — 50 sov. each, h. ft. for 3 yrs. old — 10 sub. 8 
pd. ft. — won by Lord Chesterfield's bl. f. Olga, 8st, 41b. — 1 mile 
300/. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each &c. — 69 sub (41 pd. 5/. each) 
won by Sir M. Wood's Lucetta, 6 yrs. old, 9st. 51b. — 2§ miles 
755/. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's The Hermit, 8st. life, beat 
Lord Jersey's b. c. Fingal, 8st. 71b. both 3 yrs. old.— T. Y. C. 
50/. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's gr. c. Cacador 3 yrs. old, 7st. 
71b. beat Mr. Cosby's br. h. Sketch-book, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 71b. — 
T. Y. C 50/. 

Gold Cup — 300 sov, rest in specie — by sub. of 20 sov. each, 
with 100 added by the City of Chichester — 33 sub. — won by 
Lord Chesterfield's b. h. Priam 5 yrs. old, 9st. 131b. — 2 \ miles 
760/. 

Members' Plate — (Chichester) won by Lord Exeter's b. c. 
Roebuck, by Partisan, 3 yrs. 7st. 41b. — heats, once round. . .50/. 

Match — Lord Tavistock's ch. g. Schoolmaster, by Rasping 
7st. 101b., beat Mr. Cosby's br. f. Giantess, 8st. 71b., both 3 yrs. 
T. Y. C 50/. 

Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each, for 3 yrs. old — 14 sub. — won by 
Lord Tavistock's b. o. Posthumus, 8st. 71b. — 1 mile 700/ 



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His Majesty's Plate— won by Mr. Sadler's br. g. Jocko, b^ 
Filho, aged, 9st. 81b.— 3 miles 105/. 

Duke of Richmond's P/a/e(handicap) — won by Mr. Sadler's 
ch. m. Device by Tramp, 6 yrs. old, 9st. — 1 mile 100/. 

Waterloo Plate — 50 sov. added to a sweepstakes of 10 sov* 
each — 2 sub. — won by Mr. J. Day's bl. m. Busk, by Whalebone 
" 12st.— heats T. Y. C 70/. 

Money Given, 430/.— Stakes, 4295/.— Matches, 225/. 
Total 4950/. 



1833. TUESDAY, JULY 31— AUGUST 1, 2, 3. 



Match — Lord Exeter's b. c. Cactus by Sultan, 8st. 7fo. beat 
Lord Conyugham's b. c. brother to Blythe, 8st. 31b. — 1 miJe — 
100/. 

Lavant Stakes — 50 sov. each, 30ft. for 2 yrs. old — 16 sub. — 
(6 pd. ft.) — won by Lord Exeter's b. f. Mimosa, by Sultan, 
8st. 81b.— i mile 680/. 

Match — Mr. Kent's ro. f. Baleine by Whalebone, 3 yrs. old 
9st. beat Mr. Cosby's br. f. Pussy, 2 yrs. old, 6st. 111b. — f mile. 
100/. 

Drawing Room Stakes — 25 sov. each (33 sub) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. each (37 sub.) for 3 years old — won by Mr. 
Rawlinson's b. c. Revenge by Fungus, 8st. 71b. — 2| miles. .1195/. 

Match — Mr. Gardnor's b. c. Messenger, by Partisan 7st. 
111b. beat Mr. Martyn's b. c. Herrier 8st. 2fl5.— | mile 100/. 

Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 25 added by the Innkeepers 
— 7 sub. — won by Duke of Richmond's ch. h. Gondolier, by 
Merlin, 6 yrs. old. 9st. 5lb. — 1 mile heats 60/. 

Sweepstakes — 100 sov. each, h. ft. for 3 yrs. old — 5 sub. — 
won by Lord Chesterfield's b. f. Weeper — 1 mile 350/. 

Ladies' 1 plate — 50 sov. added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each. 
— 3 sub. — won by Mr. Gardnor's Messenger, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 101b 
— 1 mile heats 65/. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each, 81 sub. (12 pd. 15 sov., 58 
pd. 5 sov. each — won by Mr. Bigg's ch. h. Little Red Rover, by 
Tramp, 6 yrs. old, 8st. 61b— 2| miles ,_ 820/. 



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Molecomb Stakes — 50 sov, each, h. ft. for 2 yrs. old — 5 sub. 
—won by Mr. Sad]er's b. c. Defensive 8st. 51b.— T. Y. C. .225/. 

Gold Cup — 300 sov. the rest in specie, by sub. of 20 sov. 
each, with 100 added by the City of Chichester, 37 sub. — won by 
Mr. Kent's ch. h. Rubini, by St. Patrick, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 91b.— 
2| miles 840/. 

His Majesty's Plate — won by Mr. Greville's b. c. Whale, 
by Whalebone, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 41b. — 3 miles 105/. 

Racing Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each, for 3 yrs. old — 19 sub. — 
won by Mr. Forth' s b. f. Marpessa, by Muley 8st. 41b. — 1 mile 
950/. 

Duke of Richmond's Plate (handicap) — won by Lord 
Chesterfield's b. f. Weeper, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 131b.— 1 mile 100/. 

Waterloo Plate, — 50 sov. added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. 
each, — 10 sub. — won by Mr. Delme RadclifFe's b. m. Wilna, by 
Smolensko, 5 yrs. old, list. 81fe 100/. 

Member's Plate — (Chichester)won by Mr. Brown's br. c. 
Pumpken, by Troy, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 71b. — heats, once lound. .50/. 

A Gold Cup — the gift of Lord Lichfield, for beaten horses — 
won by Duke of Richmond's b. c. Ketchup, by Moses, 3 yrs. 
old, 7st. 91b 100/. 

Money given, 580/. Stakes, 5060/. Matches, 300/. 
Total, 5940/. 



1834: TUESDAY, JULY 29, 30, 31, and AUGUST 1. 

Lavant Stakes —50 sov. each, 30 ft. — for 2 yrs. old — 16 sub. 
—(11 pd. ft.) won by Lord Chesterfield's b. f. Eva, by Sultan, 
8st. 3ft>. — a mile 580/. 

Match — Mr. Greville's gr. c. Marmoset, beat Duke of Rich- 
mond's c. by Mameluke, out of Loo, — 8st. 4ft3. each — \ mile 25/. 

Drawing Boom Stakes — 25 sov. each, (31 sub.) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. each, (35 sub.)— for 3 yrs. old— won by Sir 
M. Wood's ch. c. Charivari, bv Reveller, 8st. 71b. — 2J miles 
1125/. 

Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 25 added by the Innkeepers 
— 3 sub. — won by Duke of Richmond's b. c. Ketchup, by Moses, 
4 yrs. old, 8st.— heats, T.Y.C. (winner claimed for 100 sov,. .40/. 



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Verulam Stakes — 100 sow each, h. ft. for 3 yrs. old fillies, 
8st. 7ft3.— 7 sub. (4 pd. ft.) — won by Sir F. Johnstone's b. f. by 
Merlin, dam by Phantom — 1 mile 500/. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each, — 1 12 sub. — (71 pd. 5 sov. 
each,) won by Mr. Champion's b. c. Robin Rough-head, 4 yrs. 
old, 7st. 7lB.— 2J miles 1130/. 

Ladles Plate — 50 sov. added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each 
— 4 sub — won by Mr. Greville's b. c. Whale by Whalebone, 4 yrs. 
old, 8st. 71b 707. 

Molecomb Stakes — 50 sov. each, h. ft. for 2 yrs. old — 25 sub. 
(18 pd. ft.) won by Mr. Wreford's b. f. Waresti, by Sultan, 8st. 
T. Y. C 800/. 

Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each, h. ft. for 2 yrs. old — 4 sub. — 
Lord Egremont's b. f. Ethilda walked over, T. Y. C 125/. 

Member's Plate (Chichester) — won by Mr. Forth's Gratis, 
by Middleton, 5 yrs. old, 9st. — heats, once round 50/. 

Gold Cup — 300 'sov. the rest in specie — by sub. of 20 sov. 
each, with 100 from the Racing Fund — 40 sub. — won by Lord 
Jersey's ch. c. Glencoe, by Sultan, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 41b. — 2£ miles 
900/. 

City Plate — won by Capt. Berkeley's b. f. Goldfringe, 3 yrs. 
old, 6st. 21b.— T. Y. C 50/. 

A Plate — given by Lord Geo. Bentinck — won by Mr. Far- 
rail's Kate, by Lapdog, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 121b.— 3 miles 100/. 

His Majesty's Plate — Lord Chesterfield's Glaucus by Par- 
tizan, 4 yrs. old, 9st. 21b. walked over t 105/. 

Duke of Richmond' s Plate — won by Col. Peel's Nonsense, 
4 yrs. old, 8st. 101b.— 1 mile 100/. 

A Cup — the gift of T. P. Cosby, Esq. added to a handicap 
sweepstakes of 10 sov. each, for 3 yrs. old and upwards — 10 sub. 
— won by Mr. Kent's Baleine, by Whalebone, 4yrs. old 7st. 8fl5. 
— li mile 100/. 

Pacing Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each, for 3 yrs. old — 10 sub. 
— won by Lord Jersey's Glencoe, 8st. 13lfe. — 1 mile 500/. 

Money given, 680/.— Stakes, 5695/.— Match, 50/ 
Total 6425/. 



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1835. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 29, 30, 31. 

Drawing Room Stakes 25 sov. each (25 sub.) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. each, (28sub)for 3 years old — won by Mr. 
Greville's ch. f. Preserve, by Emilius 8st. 61b. — 2£ miles . . 905/. 

Lavant stakes — 50 sov. each, 30 ft. for 2 yrs. old — 20 sub. 
(13 paid ft.)— won by Mr. W. Chifney's b. c. The Athenian, 8st. 
121b— \ mile 746/. 

Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 25 added by the Innkeepers. 
6. sub. — won by the Duke of Richmond's ch. c. Hyderhabad, 
3 yrs. old, 7st. 41b.— heats. T. Y. C 55/. 

Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 30 added — 5 sub. — won by 
Mr. Kent's ro m. Baleine, 5 yrs. old,8st. 91b. — lmile heats. .55/. 

Verulam Stakes — 100 sov. each, h. ft. for 3 yrs. old fillies, 
8st. 71b. — 3 sub. — Mr. Greville's Preserve walked over — 1 mile. 
200/. 

Free Plate — 50 sov.— won by Mr. W. Edwards's b. f. Play- 
thing, 3 yrs. old, 6st. — heats — 3 miles 50/. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each, 15ft. — 1 17 sub. — (15 pd. 15 
sov., 88 pd. 5 sov. each — won by Lord Chesterfield's b. h. Glau- 
cus, 5 yrs. old 9st. 81fe. — 2\ miles 1015/. 

Molecomb Stakes — 50 sov. each, h. ft. for 2 yrs. old — 19 sub. 
(16 pd. ft.) won by Mr. Greville's ch. c. Elis, by Langar 8st. 101b 
T. Y. C 550/. 

Member's Plate (Chichester) — won by Mr. Shelley's br. g. 
King of Trumps, aged, 9st. lib. — heats, once round 50/. 

Gold Cup — 300 sov. the rest in specie, by sub. of 20 sov. 
each, with 100 added by the Racing Fund — 47 sub. — won by Mr. 
Theobald's b. h. Rockingham, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 41b. — 2£ miles. . 
1040/. 



? — 5 sov. each, with 40 added — 5 sub. — won by 
Duke of Richmond's Hyderhabad, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 12lfe. — 1 mile 
heats 65/. 

His Majesty's Plate — won by Mr. Shack el's b. c. Lucifer, 3 
yrs. old, 7st. 4lb. — 3 miles 105/. 

Duke of Richmond's Plate — won by Mr. Shelley's b. f. 
Schoolmistress, 4 yrs. old, 6st. 121b. — 1 mile ". . . . 100/. 

Racing Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each, for 3 yrs. old — 7 sub. 
won by Mr. Greville's ch. f. Preserve 8st. 101b. — 1 mile, . 350/. 

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A Free Cup— the gift of Lord Winton— Handicap— won by 
Lord Egremont's Nonsense, 5 yrs. old, lOst. — f mile 100/. 

Money given, 6007.— Stakes, 4780/.— Total, 5380/. 



1836. WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 28, 29, 



Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 50 added by the Innkeepers 
— 5 sub. — won by Mr. Shelley's b. h. Airy, by St. Patric, 5 yrs. 
old, 8st. 71b. — heats T. Y. C. (winner claimed for 100/). . . . 75/. 

Lavant Stakes — 50 each, 30 ft. for 2 yrs. old — 14 sub, f 10 
pd. ft.) won by Mr. Wreford's br. c. Wintonian, by Camel, 8st. 
71b.— J mile 500/. 

Drawing Room Stakes — 25 sov. each (23 sub.) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. each (23 sub.) for 3 yrs. old — won by Lord 
Lichfield's ch. c. Elis, 8st. 71b 805/. 

Member s Plate — (Chichester)won by Duke of Richmond's 
b. c. Elizondo, by Camel, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 71b. — heats, once round 
50/. 

Cowdray Stakes — 25 sov. each, for 2 yrs. old, 7st. and 3 
years, 9st. 21b. — won by Mr. J. Day's b. c. Foozool, 3 yrs. old. 
T. Y. C 75/. 

His Majesty's Plate — won by Mr. J. Day's Venison, 3 yrs. 
old— 3 miles' 105/. 

Match — Duke of Richmond's b. c. Elizondo, 4 yrs. 8st. 71b. 
rec. ft. from Mr. Brown's Morpeth, 5 yrs. old. 8st. 31b 100/. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each — 94 sub (53 pd. 5/. each) — 
won by Mr. Houldsworth's br. c. Felix, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 81b. — 2$ 
miles 1060/. 

City Plate — added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each — 5 sub. — 
won by Duke of Richmond's b. c. Mus. 3 yrs. 7st. — 1 mile 125/. 

Match — Sir F. Collier's Lieutenant by the Colonel rec. ft., 
from Mr. Bond's b. c. by Tramp, out of Neva, 8st. each .... 50/. 

Duke of Richmond's P/«/e(handicap) — won by Lord Egre- 
momt's br. c. Hock, by Chateau Margaux, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 31b. — 
f mile 100/. 



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Molecomb Stakes — 50 sov. each, h. ft. for 2 yrs. old — 12sub. 
— won by Mr. Sadler's ch. c. Defender by Defence, 8st. 101b. — 
T. Y. C 400/. 

Match — Lord Chesterfield's b. f. Julianna, by Partisan, 4 
yrs. old, 8st. 7Ife. beat Mr. Brown's Morpeth, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 
T. Y. C 50?. 

Gold Cup — 300 sov, rest in specie — by sub. of 20 sov. each, 
with 100 added from the Racing Fund — 40 sub. — won by Lord 
Chesterfield's ch. c. Hornsea by Velocipede 4 yrs. old, 8st. 101b. 
900?. 

Match — Lord Chesterfield's ch. g. Whimsical by Blacklock, 
5 yrs. old. 9st. beat Duke of Richmond's ch. c. Muley, 2 yrs. old 
6st. 121b. T. Y. C 25?. 

A Free Cup — the gift of the Duke of Beaufort — won by Mr. 
J. Day's b. c. Foozool, 3 yrs. old, 6st. 103b. § mile 100?. 

Racing Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each for 3 yrs. old — 6 sub. — 
won by Lord Chesterfield's c. Elis, 8st. 131b.— 1 mile 300/. 

Money given, 665?.— Stakes, 3990?.— Matches, 275?. 
Total, 4930Z. 



1837. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 3, 4, 5. 

Craven Stakes — 10 sov. each, for 3 yrs. old — 14 sub. — won 
by Lord Sumeld' br. c. Caravan, by Camel, 3 yrs. old, 7st. — 
new course 140?. 

Sweepstakes — 300 sov. each, h. ft. for 4 yrs. old — 15 sub. — 
(12 pd. ft.) — won by Mr. J. Day's ch. c. The Drummer, bv the 
Colonel, 8st. 7lb 2700?. 

Drawing Room Stakes — 25 sov. each (24 sub) with a bonus 
by sub. of 10 sov. each (37 sub.) for 3 years old — won by Mr. 
Wreford's b. c. Wisdom, by Sultan, 8st. 71b. — once round. .970?. 

Lavant Stakes — 50 sov. each, 30ft. for 2 yrs. old — 27 sub. — 
won by Mr. Bowe's gr. c. Grey Momus by Comus, 8st. 71b. — 
a mile 910/. 

Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 50 added by the Innkeepers 
—8 sub. — won by Mr. J. Day's b. c. Foozool, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 4lfe 
—heats, T.Y.C 90?. 



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Goodwood Stakes— %b sov. each, 107 sub. (68 pd. 5 sov. — 
— won by Mr. Robertson's b. h Lucifer, by Lottery, 5 yrs. old, 
7st. 101b. — 2| miles 1155/. 

City Plate — 100 sov. added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each — 
12 sub. — won by Col. Peel's ch. h. Castaway, by Cain, 5 yrs. old 
8st. 91b. — 1 mile heats 160/. 

Cowdray Stakes — 25 sov. each, for 2 yrs. old, 7st. and 3 yrs. 
9st. 21b. — won by Duke of Richmond's br. f. Guava, by the 
Colonel out of Gulnare, 2 yrs. old.— T. Y. C 100/. 

His Majesty's Plate — won by Lord Chesterfield's b. c. 
Edgar, by Shakespeare, 3 yrs. old, 7st. 41b. — 3 miles 105/. 

Members' Plate — (Chichester) 50 sov., with 50 added by the 
Ladies, and 10 sov. from the Fund for second horse — won by 
Duke of Richmond's ch. c. Skilleygolee, by Muley, 3 yrs. old, 
7st. 41b — heats, once round . 110/. 

Sweepstakes — 100 sov. each, h. ft. for 2 yrs. old — 5 sub. — 
Duke of Richmond's b. f. Wimple by the Colonel, out of Man- 
tilla, 7st. 131b.— walked over 300/. 

Racing Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each, for 3 yrs. old — 10 sub. — 
won by Mr. Rush's b. c. Pickwick, by Camel, 8st. 71b. — 1 mile. 
500/. 

Molecomb Stakes— 50 sov. h. ft. for 2 yrs. old— 26 sub. (21 
pd. ft.) — won by Mr. Bowe's gr. c. Grey Momus 8st. 121fe. — 
T. Y. C , 775/. 

Duke of Richmond's Plate— (handicap) — won by Lord 
Jersey's ch. c. Mendicant, by Tramp, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 41b. — 1 mile. 
100/ # 

Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 50 added, for 3 yrs. old and 
upwards — 4 sub. — won by Lord Tavistock's br. h. Lyrnessus, by 
Royal Oak, 5 yrs. old, 8st. 41b. — Craven Course 70/. 

Gold Cup — 300 sov. the rest in specie — 44 sub. — won by 
Lord Chesterfield's br. h. Carew, by Tramp, or Comus, 4 yrs. 
old, 8st. lib.— 2^ miles 980/. 

Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 25 added for 3 yrs. old and 
upwards — 5 sub. — won by Mr. Gardnor's b. c. Magician, by 
Zinganee, 4 yrs. old, 7st. 121b. — 1 mile 50/. 

Free Cup — the gift of Lord Albermarle (handicap) — won by 
Lord Jersey's Mendicant, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 2lb. — % mile. .... .100/. 

Sweepstakes — 5 sov. each, with 25 added, for 3 yrs. old and 



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upwards— 5 sub.— won by Mr. Gardnor's gr. f. Dudu by Sultan, 

3 yrs. old, 7st. 41b. — heats, 1 mile 50/. 

The Waterloo Shield— a Piece of Plate, the free gift of Lord 
George Bentinck— 1000 sov. added to a sweepstakes of 25 sov. 
each, 15ft.— second horse received 100 sov. — the third 50 sov. out 
of the stakes— 40 sub. — won by Col. Peel's Slane, by Royal Oak, 

4 yrs. 8st. 21b.— 3 miles 1780/. 

Money given, 1765/.— Stakes, 9380/.— Total 11,145/. 



1838. TUESDAY, JULY 31, and AUGUST 1, 2, 3. 

Craven Stakes — 10 sov. each — 12 sub. — won by Duke of 
Richmond's br. h. Mus, by Bizarre — new course 120/. 

Match — Lord Chesterfield's br. f. Industry, by Priam beat 
Lord Exeter's Romania, 8st. 71b. each — 1 mile 500/. 

Lavant Stakes — 50 sov. each, h. ft. for 2 yrs. old — 20 sub. 
(11 pd. ft.) won by Mr. Wreford's br. f. Wapiti, 8st. 51fe.— § mile 
780/. 

Drawing Room Stakes — 25 sov. (18 sub.) with a bonus by 
sub. of 10 sov. each (19 sub) for 3 yrs. old — won by Lord G. 
Bentinck's gr. c. Grey Momus, 8st, 7ft3. — 2£ miles. . .' 890/. 

Sweepstakes — 300 sov. each, h. ft. for 4 yrs. old — 9 sub. — 6 
pd. ft.) won by Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Chapeau d' Espagne, 
by Dr. Syntax, 8st. 21b.— 3f miles 1800/. 

Innkeepers Plate — 50 sov. added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. 
each— 9 sub. — won. by Capt. Pettat's b. h. Caliph, 6 years. 8st. 
101b.— heats, T. Y. C 95/. 

Produce Stakes — 100 sov. h. ft. for 2 yrs. old — 3 sub. — Mr. 
Wreford's br. f. Wapiti, 8st. 4lb. walked over— T. Y. C 200/. 

Produce Stakes — 100 sov. h. ft. for 2 yrs, old — 6 sub (3 pd. 
ft.)— won by Mr. Wreford's br. f. Wapiti, 8st. 61b— T.Y.C. 450/. 

Goodwood Stakes — 25 sov. each — 118 sub. (78 pd. 5 sov. 
eacTi^) — won by Mr. Theobald's br. c. Louthefbourg, 4 yrs. 7st. 
lib. — cup course 1 100/. 

Members 7 Plate — (Chichester j — 50 sov. with 50 added by 
the Ladies, and 10 from the fund for the second horse — won by 
Mr. Honldsworth's b. c. Spectre, by Firman, 3 yrs. 7st. 41b. — 
— heats, once round 1 10/. 



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City Plate — 100 sov. added to a sweepstakes of 5 sov. each 
— 11 sub. — won by Duke of Richmond's Mus, 5 yrs. 8st. 91b. — 
1 mile heats 155/. 

Racing Sweepstakes — 50 sov. each, for 3 yrs. old — 11 sub. — 
won by Lord George Bentinck's gr. c. Grey Momus, 8st. 131b. — 
one mile 5507. 

Molecomb Stakes — 50 sov. each, h. ft. for 2 yrs. old — 19sub. 
(13 pd. ft.)— won by Mr. Wreford's br. f. Wapiti, 8st. 91b.— 
T. Y. C 6251. 

Gold Cup — 300 sov. rest in specie — by sub. of 20 sov. each, 
with 100 added from the Racing Fund — 40 sub. — won by Mr. 
Ferguson's ch. c. Harkaway, 4 yrs. old, 8st. 8Jfe. — Cup course — 
900/. 

Her Majesty's Plate — won by Lord Suffi eld's ch.h. St. Luke 
by Bedlamite, 5 yrs. old, 9st. 13fc.— 3£ miles 105/. 

Duke of Richmond's P/#/e(handicap) — won by Lord Jersey's 
b. f. Joannina, by Priam, 3 yrs. old, 6st. lib. — 1 mile 100/. 

Sweepstakes — 200 sov. each, h. ft. for 2 yrs. old — 3 sub. — 
Duke of Richmond's ch. c. Bulwark, by Defence, 8st. 71b. — 
walked over— T.Y.C 400/. 

A Free Cup (handicap) — the gift of Lord Suffield — won by 
Capt. Gardnor's ch. h. Toothill, by the Colonel, 5 yrs. 9st. lib. 
Craven course 100/. 

Cowdray Stakes — 25 sov. each, for 2 yrs. old, 7st. and 3 
years, 9st. 21b. — 3 sub. — won by Capt. Gardnor's br. c. Ochiltree 
by Gaberlunzie, 3 yrs. old— T. Y. C 75/. 

Handicap Sweepstakes — 20 sov. each, 5 ft. if declared &c. 
with 150 added by the Marquis of Exeter — 16 sub. (8 paid 5 sov. 
each) — won by Mr. Robertson's ch. g. Olympic, by Reveller, 
aged, 9st. 61b.— 3i miles 350/. 

Handicap Sweepstakes — 10 sov. each, — Gent. Riders — 5 sub. 
— won by Capt. Gardnor's Reuben, by Bay Malton, 5 yrs. old, 
list. 12tb.—| mile * 50/. 

Match — 50 sov. — Capt. Gardnor's Toothill, 5 yrs. list. rec. 
ft. from Mr. Dolphin's Skater, 5 yrs. lOst 101b. — £ mile. . . . 25/. 

Money given, 815/.— Stakes, 8140/.— Matches, 525/. 
Total— 9480/. 



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DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER. 

Goodwood House to face Title. 

Roman Inscription to face page 157 

The Dog Kennels 167 

St. Roche's Hill 173 

Tumuli and Antient British Habitation 177 

Race Stand 183 



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